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Daniel 1:12
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“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
"Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please put your servants to the test for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Daniel said to the guard, "Please give us this test for ten days: Don't give us anything but vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please, test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Proue thy seruants, I beseeche thee, ten dayes, and let them giue vs pulse to eate, and water to drinke.
"Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"For the next ten days, let us have only vegetables and water at mealtime.
"Please! Try an experiment on your servants — for ten days have them give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;
He said, "Please give us this test for ten days: Don't give us anything but vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Test your servants for ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Test us for ten days," he said. "Give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us some of the vegetables, and let us eat and let us drink water.
Please, test your servants ten days. And let vegetables be given to us that we may eat, and water that we may drink.
O proue but ten dayes with thy seruauntes, and let vs haue potage to eate, and water to drynke:
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.
'Try thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
O proue but ten dayes with thy seruauntes, and let vs haue pulse to eate, and water to drinke.
Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Y biseche, asaie thou vs thi seruauntis bi ten daies, and potagis be youun to vs to ete, and water to drynke; and biholde thou oure cheris,
Prove your slaves, I urge you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
"Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please test us for ten days on a diet of vegetables and water," Daniel said.
"Test your servants for ten days. Give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
"Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
I pray thee - prove thy servants, ten days, - and let them give us vegetable food, that we may eat, and water that we may drink:
Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:
"Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
`Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
pulse to eat: Heb. of pulse that we may eat, etc. Pulse, zeroim denotes all leguminous plants, which are not reaped but pulled or plucked; which, however wholesome, was not naturally calculated to render them fatter in flesh than the others. Daniel 1:16, Genesis 1:29, Genesis 1:30, Deuteronomy 8:3, Romans 14:2
Reciprocal: Daniel 12:11 - a thousand
Cross-References
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liuing creature after his kinde, cattell, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kinde: and it was so.
And God said, Let vs make man in our Image, after our likenesse: and let them haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer the cattell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth.
For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sowen in it, to spring foorth: so the Lord God will cause righteousnes and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of herselfe, first the blade, then the eare, after that the full corne in the eare.
For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruit: for of thornes men doe not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Now he that ministreth seede to the sower, both minister bread for your foode, and multiply your seede sowen, and encrease the fruites of your righteousnesse)
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days, e.] Here Daniel manifestly includes his companions, and makes his request for himself and them desiring that they might be tried ten days with different sort of food and drink, and see whether any alteration would be made in them for the worse; which was a proper time for such a trial; for in that time it might be reasonably supposed that their food, if it had any bad effect on them, would appear. Saadiah makes these ten days to be the days between the first day of the year and the day of atonement; but without any foundation:
and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink; instead of the king's meat, pulse, beans, pease, vetches, lentiles, rice, millet, and the like. The word d used signifies anything sown, all kinds of roots, herbs, and fruits; and, instead of wine, water; meat and drink, it may be thought, that persons of such birth and education had not been used to; and yet they preferred these to the king's dainties, by eating and drinking of which their consciences would be in danger of being defiled.
d מן הזרעים απο των σπερματων, Sept.; "de seminibus", Montanus; "de sativis", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days - A period which would indicate the probable result of the entire experiment. If during that period there were no indications of diminished health, beauty, or vigour, it would not be unfair to presume that the experiment in behalf of temperance would be successful, and it would not be improper then to ask that it might be continued longer.
And let them give us pulse to eat - Margin, “of pulse that we may eat.” Hebrew, “Let them give us of pulse, and we will eat.” The word “pulse” with us means leguminous plants with thin seeds; that is, plants with a pericarp, or seed-vessel, of two valves, having the seeds fixed to one suture only. In popular language the “legume” is called a “pod;” as a “pea-pod,” or “bean-pod,” and the word is commonly applied to peas or beans. The Hebrew word (זרעים zēro‛ı̂ym) would properly have reference to seeds of any kind - from זרע zâra‛, to disperse, to scatter seed, to sow. Then it would refer to plants that bear seed, of all kinds, and would be by no means limited to pulse - as pease or beans. It is rendered by Gesenius, “seed-herbs, greens, vegetables; i. e., vegetable food, such as was eaten in half-fast, opposed to meats and the more delicate kinds of food.” The word occurs only here and in Daniel 1:16. It is rendered in the Vulgate, “legumina;” and in the Greek, ἀπὸ τῶν σπερμάτων apo tōn spermatōn - “from seeds.” It is not a proper construction to limit this to “pulse,” or to suppose that Daniel desired to live solely on pease or beans; but the fair interpretation is to apply it to what grows up from “seeds” - such, probably, as would be sown in a garden, or, as we would now express it, “vegetable diet.” It was designed as an experiment - and was a very interesting one - to show the legitimate effect of such a diet in promoting beauty and health, and the result is worthy of special notice as contrasted with a more luxurious mode of life.
And water to drink - This, also, was a most interesting and important experiment, to show that wine was not necessary to produce healthfulness of appearance, or manly strength and beauty. It was an experiment to illustrate the effect of “cold water” as a beverage, made by an interesting group of young men, when surrounded by great temptations, and is, therefore, worthy of particular attention.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Daniel 1:12. Give us pulse to eat — הזרעים hazzeraim, seeds or grain, such as barley, wheat, rye, and peas, c. Though a vegetable diet might have produced that healthiness of the system in general, and of the countenance particularly, as mentioned here yet we are to understand that there was an especial blessing of God in this, because this spare diet was taken on a religious account.
