Daniel 1:8-16
Daniel’s Heart
8But Daniel set in his heart that he would not adefile himself with the bking’s choice food or with the cwine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself. 9Now God granted Daniel alovingkindness and compassion before the commander of the officials, 10and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would 1make me forfeit my head to the king.” 11But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12“Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be agiven some vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13“Then let our appearance be 1observed before you and the appearance of the youths who are eating the king’s choice food; and deal with your servants according to what you see.”
14So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days. 15At the end of ten days it was seen that their appearance was abetter and that 1they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food. 16So the overseer continued to 1withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept agiving them vegetables.