Daniel 1:12

12 Prueba, ahora, con tus siervos diez días, y dennos de las legumbres a comer, y agua a beber

Daniel 1:12 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 1:12

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 ^F4 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Myerzh Nm) (apo twn spermatwn) , Sept.; "de seminibus", Montanus; "de sativis", Cocceius.

Daniel 1:12 In-Context

10 Y dijo el príncipe de los eunucos a Daniel: Tengo temor de mi señor el rey, que señaló vuestra comida y vuestra bebida; pues luego que él vea vuestros rostros más tristes que los de los muchachos que son semejantes a vosotros, condenaréis mi cabeza para con el rey

11 Entonces dijo Daniel a Melsar, que estaba puesto por príncipe de los eunucos sobre Daniel, Ananías, Misael, y Azarías

12 Prueba, ahora, con tus siervos diez días, y dennos de las legumbres a comer, y agua a beber

13 Parezcan luego delante de ti nuestros rostros, y los rostros de los muchachos que comen de la ración de la comida del rey; y según que vieres, harás con tus siervos

14 Consintió, pues, con ellos en esto, y probó con ellos diez días