Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”(A)

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Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like(A) and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing(B) before I die.”(C)

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Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](A)
and don’t desire his choice food,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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Faithfulness in Babylon

Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food(A) or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief eunuch not to defile himself.(B)

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But Daniel resolved not to defile(A) himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

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