¹³ The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”^(A)

¹⁴ Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord!^(B) I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead^(C) or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.^(D)”

⁸ But Daniel resolved not to defile^(A) himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

⁷ “By offering defiled food^(A) on my altar.

“But you ask,^(B) ‘How have we defiled you?’

“By saying that the Lord’s table^(C) is contemptible.

¹² “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table^(A) is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food^(B) is contemptible.’