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Daniel and the Vegetables

Daniel and his friends ask for vegetables and water.

Daniel 1:8–16About 1 minute

This retelling follows the first Bible passage listed. A Greek version of this account is also identified in the source notes below.

Let’s begin

Daniel and his friends lived in the king’s palace. Daniel wanted to stay faithful to God.

What happened next

He asked a guard to give them vegetables to eat and water to drink for ten days, instead of the king’s food and wine.

What happened next

After ten days, they looked healthy and well nourished. The guard let them keep eating vegetables and drinking water.

The end

This story is about Daniel’s faith and his choice to honour God.

A children’s retelling of Daniel 1:8–16. You can read the Bible passage together too.

Read the Bible passages

Source: World English Bible Classic, a public domain translation. This page is a retelling, rather than a word-for-word Bible text.

Greek-source version: Daniel (Greek) 1:1–21

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