Daniel 1:14

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

So then he hearkened unto them, according to this word, - and proved them ten-days;

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.

Contemporary English Version
The guard agreed to do what Daniel had asked.

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.

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 But Daniel laid it upon his heart, that he would not defile himself with the delicacies of the king, nor with the wine which he drank, - therefore sought he of the ruler of the eunuchs, that he might not defile himself. ⁹ But, although God had brought Daniel into lovingkindness and tender compassion, before the ruler of the eunuchs, ¹⁰ yet said the ruler of the eunuchs unto Daniel, I do fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink, - for why should he see your faces more sad than those of the youths of your own age? so should ye bring me under the penalty of mine own head unto the king. ¹¹ Then said Daniel, unto the overseer whom the ruler of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: ¹² 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: ¹³ then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenances of the youths who have been eating the delicacies of the king, - and, as thou shalt see, deal thou with thy servants. ¹⁴ So then he hearkened unto them, according to this word, - and proved them ten-days; ¹⁵ and, at the end of ten days, their countenances appeared more comely, and fatter in flesh, - than any of the youths who had been eating the delicacies of the king. ¹⁶ Thus it came about that the overseer continued taking away their delicacies, and the wine appointed them to drink, - and kept on giving them vegetable food.

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Cross-References

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

Genesis 1:2
Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,

Genesis 1:3
And God said - Light, be, And light was.

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was, good, and God divided the light, from the, darkness;

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,

Genesis 1:7
And God made the expanse, and it divided between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the land brought-forth vegetation - herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, whose seed is within it, after its kind, And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said - Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night, - and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for 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.