Daniel 1:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's rich food.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And at the end of ten days it was seen that they were looking better and had taken on more flesh than all the youths who ate of the king's rich dainties.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of the king’s dainties.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ At the end of ten days they looked better and healthier than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ But, after ten days, their faces appeared better and fatter than all the children who had eaten from the king's food.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king’s food.

Daniel 1:15 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.

Exodus 23:25

You shall serve the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Daniel 1:14

So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Haggai 1:9

You have looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while you busy yourselves each with his own house.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Matthew 4:4

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”