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Dan 1:12 (KJV) — Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

Dan 1:12 (NIV) — "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

pulse to eat	Heb. of pulse that we may eat, etc. Pulse, zeröim, denotes all leguminous plants, which are not reaped but pulled or plucked; which, however wholesome, was not naturally calculated to render them fatter in flesh than the others. Dan 1:16; Gen 1:29,30; Deu 8:3; Rom 14:2