Daniel 1:12

12 y le dijo: «Por favor, pruébanos durante diez días con una dieta de vegetales y agua.

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 pero le respondió: «Tengo miedo de mi señor el rey quien ordenó que ustedes comieran estos alimentos y bebieran este vino. Si se vuelven pálidos y delgados en comparación con otros jóvenes de su edad, temo que el rey mandará a decapitarme».

11 Entonces Daniel habló con el asistente que había sido designado por el jefe del Estado Mayor para cuidar a Daniel, Ananías, Misael y Azarías,

12 y le dijo: «Por favor, pruébanos durante diez días con una dieta de vegetales y agua.

13 Al cumplirse los diez días, compara nuestro aspecto con el de los otros jóvenes que comen de la comida del rey. Luego decide de acuerdo con lo que veas».

14 El asistente aceptó la sugerencia de Daniel y los puso a prueba por diez días.