Bel and the Dragon 26 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 14:26
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them together: and he made lumps, and put them into the dragon’s mouth, and the dragon burst asunder. And he said: Behold him whom you worshipped.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Daniel 14:26
And so Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and cooked them together. And he made lumps and put them into the dragon’s mouth, and the dragon burst open. And he said, “Behold, this is what you worship.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:26
But allow me, O king, and I will kill this dragon without sword or staff.” The king said, “I allow you.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:26
But allow me, O king, and I will kill this dragon without sword or staff.” The king said, “I allow you.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Σὺ δὲ, βασιλεῦ, δός μοι ἐξουσίαν, καὶ ἀποκτενῶ τὸν δράκοντα ἄνευ μαχαίρας καὶ ῥάβδου· καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς δίδωμί σοι.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Daniel 14:26
Tulit ergo Daniel picem, et adipem, et pilos, et coxit pariter: fecitque massas, et dedit in os draconis, et diruptus est draco. Et dixit: Ecce quem colebatis.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Daniel 14:26
ты́ же, царю̀, да́ждь мѝ вла́сть, и҆ ᲂу҆бїю̀ ѕмі́а без̾ меча̀ и҆ без̾ жезла̀. И҆ речѐ ца́рь: даю́ ти.
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 14:26
Но ты, царь, дай мне позволение, и я умерщвлю дракона без меча и жезла. Царь сказал: даю тебе.
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