So Daniel said to the guard whom the chief official had assigned to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
yet he said to Daniel, “My lord the king assigned your food and drink. I’m afraid of what would happen if he saw your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age. You would endanger my life with the king.”
“Please test your servants for 10 days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
So the guard continued to remove their food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables.
Then Daniel went to his house and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah about the matter,