Bel and the Dragon 12 in every translation
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- Daniel: the Song of the Three, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon
The Greek book of Daniel contains three passages not found in the Hebrew and Aramaic text: the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men in chapter 3, the story of Susanna, and the story of Bel and the Dragon. The Orthodox and Catholic Churches read them as Scripture, and the Orthodox sing the Song at Matins. Protestant Bibles place them among the Apocrypha, if they print them at all.
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899 In this text: Daniel 14:12
And they little regarded it, because they had made under the table a secret entrance, and they always came in by it, and consumed those things.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Daniel 14:12
But they had no concern because they had made a secret entrance under the table, and they always went in through it and devoured those things.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:12
When you come in the morning, if you don’t find that Bel has eaten everything, we will suffer death, or else Daniel, who speaks falsely against us.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:12
When you come in the morning, if you don’t find that Bel has eaten everything, we will suffer death, or else Daniel, who speaks falsely against us.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
and when thou comest in the morning, if thou find not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
and to-morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
and tomorrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ ἐλθὼν πρωῒ, ἐὰν μὴ εὕρῃς πάντα βεβρωμένα ὑπὸ τοῦ Βὴλ, ἀποθανούμεθα· ἢ Δανιὴλ ὁ ψευδόμενος καθʼ ἡμῶν.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Daniel 14:12
Contemnebant autem, quia fecerant sub mensa absconditum introitum, et per illum ingrediebantur semper, et devorabant ea.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Daniel 14:12
и҆ прише́дъ заꙋ́тра, а҆́ще не ѡ҆брѧ́щеши всегѡ̀ и҆з̾ѧ́дена ви́ломъ, тогда̀ и҆́змремъ, и҆лѝ данїи́лъ солга́вый на ны̀.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876) In this text: Daniel 14:12
И если завтра ты придешь и не найдешь, что все съедено Вилом, мы умрем, или Даниил, который солгал на нас.
Not in these translations (30)
MSB, BSB, ASV, LSV, Darby, YLT, Webster, GNV, ULB, FBV, BBE, JPS, Tyndale, RV1909, ONBV, PDT, VBL, BES, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT, WLC, Vamvas, DK, DK latinica, SVD