¹⁴ So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days. ¹⁵ At the end of ten days their appearance seemed ^(A)better and ^[a]they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food. ¹⁶ So the overseer continued to ^[b]withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept ^(B)giving them vegetables.