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Daniel wrote:

For three weeks I was in sorrow. I ate no fancy food or meat, I drank no wine, and I put no olive oil on my face or hair.[a] Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month,[b] I was standing on the banks of the great Tigris River,

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Footnotes

  1. 10.3 olive oil … hair: On special occasions, it was the custom to put olive oil on one's face and hair.
  2. 10.4 first month: Nisan (also known as Abib), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.

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