² In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.^{(A) 3} I didn’t eat any rich food,^(B) no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over. ⁴ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month,^[a] as I was standing on the bank of the great river,^(C) the Tigris,