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youths who have no physical defect,[a] and who are handsome,[b] and who are prudent[c] in all wisdom and endowed with knowledge,[d] and who understand insight, and who have the ability[e] in them to serve in the palace of the king. And the king ordered him to teach them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 1:4 Literally “there is not in them any physical defect”
  2. Daniel 1:4 Literally “good/pleasing of appearance”
  3. Daniel 1:4 Or “insightful”
  4. Daniel 1:4 Literally “who have knowledge of knowledge”
  5. Daniel 1:4 Literally “strength”