Daniel 1:7-9

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⁷However, their superintendent gave them Babylonian names, as follows:

Daniel was called Belteshazzar;

Hananiah was called Shadrach;

Mishael was called Meshach;

Azariah was called Abednego.

⁸But Daniel made up his mind not to eat^[a] the food and wine given to them by the king. He asked the superintendent for permission to eat other things instead. ⁹Now as it happened, God had given the superintendent a special appreciation for Daniel and sympathy for his predicament.

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Footnotes

Daniel 1:8 made up his mind not to eat, literally, “determined that he would not defile himself with.” The defilement was probably in eating pork or other foods outlawed in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14:3-21. He asked the superintendent for permission to eat other things instead, literally, “He asked the superintendent to allow him not to defile himself.”