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In those days, I, Daniel, I myself[a] was in mourning for three whole weeks.[b] I had not eaten any choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not use any ointment[c] until the end of three whole weeks.[d] And then on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I myself[e] was on the bank of the great river; that is, the Tigris.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 10:2 This is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun
  2. Daniel 10:2 Literally “three weeks of days”
  3. Daniel 10:3 Literally “I have not anointed at all”
  4. Daniel 10:3 Literally “until being full/complete three weeks of days”
  5. Daniel 10:4 This is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun

In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;

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