¹² Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

¹⁶ Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

² For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

³ And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.