¹⁵ He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

¹⁸ At the end of ^(A)the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

⁷ And ^(A)the chief of the eunuchs ^(B)gave them names: ^(C)Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.

Daniel's Faithfulness

⁸ But Daniel ^(D)resolved that he would not ^(E)defile himself with ^(F)the king's food, or with ^(G)the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to ^(H)defile himself. ^9 (I)And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, ¹⁰ and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.”

³ Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, ^(A)his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family^[a] and of ^(B)the nobility,

^7 (A)And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

³⁶ Meanwhile ^(A)the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, ^(B)the captain of the guard.