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I ate no fancy food or meat, I drank no wine, and I put no olive oil on my face or hair.[a] Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month,[b] I was standing on the banks of the great Tigris River, (A) when I looked up and saw someone dressed in linen and wearing a solid gold belt.[c]

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  1. 10.3 olive oil … hair: On special occasions, it was the custom to put olive oil on one's face and hair.
  2. 10.4 first month: Nisan (also known as Abib), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.
  3. 10.5 solid gold belt: Hebrew “belt of gold from Uphaz.”

I ate no [a]pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the [b]Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in (A)linen, whose waist was (B)girded with gold of Uphaz!

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  1. Daniel 10:3 desirable
  2. Daniel 10:4 Heb. Hiddekel