“Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”

“I did not laugh.”

“What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”

“Look! This Hebrew has come just to make fools of us. He tried to rape me, but I screamed for help.

“Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

“There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman."

“Why did you come here, you murderer? To kill the king? You’re no better than Zimri!”

“Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”

“Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

“Give me children, or I’ll die!”

“Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”