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.

13 Then see how we look, and compare us with how the boys who eat the king’s food look; and deal with your servants according to what you see.”