Daniel 1:12

ten days a round number of days (cf. Genesis 24:55; Genesis 31:7), sufficiently long to test the effects of the proposed diet.

let them i.e. the people appointed for the purpose. A Hebrew idiom, the force of which would here be better expressed in English by the passive, -let there be given us" (cf. Job 7:3 b, lit. -they have appointed," Psalms 63:11 a[A.V. 10 a, Psalms 64:9 a[A.V. 8a]; and on ch. Daniel 4:25).

pulse rather vegetable food in general; there is no reason for restricting the Heb. word used to leguminous fruits, such as beans and peas, which is what the term -pulse" properly denotes. Cf. Isaiah 61:11, where almost the same word is rendered -the things that are sown," i.e. vegetable products.