¹⁵ He will take a tenth^(A) of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

¹⁸ At the end of the time^(A) set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.

⁷ The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar;^(A) to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.^(B)

⁸ But Daniel resolved not to defile^(C) himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. ⁹ Now God had caused the official to show favor^(D) and compassion^(E) to Daniel, ¹⁰ but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your^[a] food and drink.^(F) Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.”

³ Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility^(A)—

⁷ And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.^(A)”

³⁶ Meanwhile, the Midianites^[a](A) sold Joseph^(B) in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.^(C)