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12 O proue but ten dayes with thy seruauntes, and let vs haue potage to eate, and water to drynke: 13 then loke vpon oure faces, and theirs that eate off the kinges meate. And as thou seyst, so deale with thy seruauntes. 14 So he consented to them in this matter, ad proued the x. dayes. 15 And after ye ten dayes, their faces were better lykinge & fatter, then all the yonge spryngaldes, which ate of the kinges meate. 16 Thus Melassar toke awaye their meate and wyne, and gaue them potage therfore. 17 God gaue now these foure spryngaldes connynge and lernynge in all scripture and wisdome: but vnto Daniel specially, he gaue vnderstondinge off all visions and dreames. 18 Now when the tyme was expyred, that the kynge had appoynted to brynge in these yonge springaldes vnto him: the chefe chamberlayne brought them before Nabuchodonosor, 19 and the kynge commoned with them. But amonge them all were founde none soch as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Asarias. Therfore stode they before the kynge, 20 which in all wisdome and matters off vnderstodinge, that he enquered off them, founde them ten tymes better, the all the soythsayers and charmers, that were in all his realme. 21 And Daniel abode still, vnto the first yeare of kynge Cyrus. Daniel 1:12-21, Coverdale Bible of 1535. Public domain.
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