Daniel 1:12-16 ▼

12 “Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

13 Then let our appearance be observed 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.”

14 So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

15 At the end of ten days it was seen that their appearance was better and that they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food.

16 So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.