Daniel 1:10-12

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁰ however, the chief officer said to Dani’el, “I’m afraid of my lord the king. After all, he has given you an allowance of food and drink; so if he were to see you boys looking worse than the others your age, you would be putting my own head in danger from the king.”

¹¹ Then Dani’el said to the guard whom the chief officer had put in charge of Dani’el, Hananyah, Misha’el and ‘Azaryah, ¹² “Please! Try an experiment on your servants — for ten days have them give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.