14. So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.
15. At the end of ten days their appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king's choice food.
16. So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.
17. As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.
18. Then at the end of the days which the king had specified for presenting them, the commander of the officials presented them before Nebuchadnezzar.