Daniel 1:14

Contemporary English Version

The guard agreed to do what Daniel had asked.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He agreed with them about this and tested them for ten days.

Hebrew Names Version
So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

King James Version
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

English Standard Version
So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

New American Standard Bible
So he listened to them in this matter, and put them to the test for ten days.

New Century Version
So the guard agreed to test them for ten days.

Amplified Bible
So the man listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

Berean Standard Bible
So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.

Complete Jewish Bible
He agreed to do what they had asked and gave them a ten-day test.

Darby Translation
And he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the guard agreed to test Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah for ten days.

George Lamsa Translation
So he consented to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

Good News Translation
He agreed to let them try it for ten days.

Lexham English Bible
So he agreed to this proposal with them, and he tested them for ten days.

Literal Translation
And he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So he consented to them in this matter, ad proued the x. dayes.

American Standard Version
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

Bible in Basic English
So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and tried them ten days.

King James Version (1611)
So hee consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So he consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he hearkened to them, and proved them ten days.

English Revised Version
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

World English Bible
So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he herde siche a word, he asaiede hem bi ten daies.

Update Bible Version
So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

New English Translation
So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.

New King James Version
So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days.

New Living Translation
The attendant agreed to Daniel's suggestion and tested them for ten days.

New Life Bible
So he listened to them, and tested them for ten days.

New Revised Standard
So he agreed to this proposal and tested them for ten days.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then he hearkened unto them, according to this word, - and proved them ten-days;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.

Revised Standard Version
So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

Young's Literal Translation
And he hearkeneth to them, to this word, and trieth them ten days:

THE MESSAGE
The steward agreed to do it and fed them vegetables and water for ten days. At the end of the ten days they looked better and more robust than all the others who had been eating from the royal menu. So the steward continued to exempt them from the royal menu of food and drink and served them only vegetables.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Daniel made up his mind to eat and drink only what God had approved for his people to eat. And he asked the king's chief official for permission not to eat the food and wine served in the royal palace. ⁹ God had made the official friendly and kind to Daniel. ¹⁰ But the man still told him, "The king has decided what you must eat and drink. And I am afraid he will kill me, if you eat something else and end up looking worse than the other young men." ¹¹ The king's official had put a guard in charge of Daniel and his three friends. So Daniel said to the guard, ¹² "For the next ten days, let us have only vegetables and water at mealtime. ¹³ When the ten days are up, compare how we look with the other young men, and decide what to do with us." ¹⁴ The guard agreed to do what Daniel had asked. ¹⁵ Ten days later, Daniel and his friends looked healthier and better than the young men who had been served food from the royal palace. ¹⁶ After this, the guard let them eat vegetables instead of the rich food and wine.

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
The earth was barren, with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean covered with darkness. But the Spirit of God was moving over the water.

Genesis 1:3

The First Day

God said, "I command light to shine!" And light started shining.

Genesis 1:4
God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness

Genesis 1:6

The Second Day

God said, "I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it."

Genesis 1:7
And that's what happened. God made the dome

Genesis 1:8
and named it "Sky." Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:9

The Third Day

God said, "I command the water under the sky to come together in one place, so there will be dry ground." And that's what happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.

Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he consented to them in all this matter,.... Or, "hearkened to them" e; being convinced that it was a very reasonable request, and the matter was fairly put; and especially as he saw, if it succeeded to their wish, it would be to his profit; since the meat and drink of these four persons would be his perquisite, and fetch him money; pulse and water being to be obtained at an easy rate:

and proved them ten days; tried the experiment, by giving them pulse and water only during this time, in order to see how it would agree with them; and whether any visible alteration could be discerned in their countenances, so as to bring him or his master into suspicion and danger.

e וישמע להם "auscultans eis", Junius Tremellius, Broughtonus "auscultavit eis", Pisator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So he consented to them in this matter - Hebrew, “he heard them in this thing.” The experiment was such, since it was to be for so short a time, that he ran little risk in the matter, as at the end of the ten days he supposed that it would be easy to change their mode of diet if the trial was unsuccessful.