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Do not desire an official’s[a] delicacies,
    for they are deceptive food.(A)

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  1. 23.3 Heb his

Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
    do not desire their delicacies,(A)

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Do not turn my heart to any evil,
    to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with those who work iniquity;
    do not let me eat of their delicacies.(A)

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Exhortation to Watch

34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A)

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But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine, so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.(A)

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22 to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,(A)

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