13. and then observe our faces, and the faces of the children who eat the king's food, and then deal with your servants according to what you see."
14. When he had heard these words, he tested them for ten days.
15. But, after ten days, their faces appeared better and fatter than all the children who had eaten from the king's food.
16. Thereafter, Malasar took away their portions and their wine for drinking, and he gave them roots.
17. Yet, to these children, God gave knowledge and instruction in every book, and wisdom, but to Daniel, also the understanding of all visions and dreams.
18. And when the time was completed, after which the king had said that they would be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before the sight of Nebuchadnezzar.
19. And, when the king conversed with them, there had not been found any so great in all the world as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; and so they stood in the sight of the king.
20. And in every concept of wisdom and understanding, about which the king consulted with them, he found them to be ten times better than all the seers and astrologers put together, who were in his entire kingdom.
21. And so Daniel remained, even until the first year of king Cyrus.