Bel and the Dragon 23 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
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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 14:23
And the king said to Daniel: Behold thou canst not say now, that this is not a living god: adore him therefore.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Daniel 14:23
And the king said to Daniel, “Behold, now you cannot say that this is not a living god; therefore, adore him.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:23
In that same place there was a great dragon which the people of Babylon worshiped.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:23
In that same place there was a great dragon which the people of Babylon worshipped.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they of Babylon worshipped.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they of Babylon worshipped.
Individual translator
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ ἦν Δράκων μέγας, καὶ ἐσέβοντο αὐτὸν οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Daniel 14:23
Et dixit rex Danieli: Ecce nunc non potes dicere quia iste non sit deus vivens: adora ergo eum.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Daniel 14:23
И҆ бѧ́ше ѕмі́й вели́кїй на мѣ́стѣ то́мъ, и҆ почита́хꙋ є҆го̀ вавѷлѡ́нѧне.
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 14:23
Был на том месте большой дракон, и Вавилоняне чтили его.
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