Daniel 10:2-4

Contemporary English Version

²Daniel wrote:

For three weeks I was in sorrow. ³I ate no fancy food or meat, I drank no wine, and I put no olive oil on my face or hair.^[a] ⁴Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month,^[b] I was standing on the banks of the great Tigris River,

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Footnotes

10.3 olive oil … hair: On special occasions, it was the custom to put olive oil on one's face and hair.
10.4 first month: Nisan (also known as Abib), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.

Daniel 10:2-4

New International Version

²At that time I, Daniel, mourned^(A) for three weeks. ³I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips;^(B) and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.

⁴On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank^(C) of the great river, the Tigris,^(D)

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