Bel and the Dragon 27 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 14:27
And when the Babylonians had heard this, they took great indignation: and being gathered together against the king, they said: The king is become a Jew. He hath destroyed Bel, he hath killed the dragon, and he hath put the priests to death.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Daniel 14:27
When the Babylonians had heard this, they were greatly indignant. And gathering together against the king, they said, “The king has become a Jew. He has destroyed Bel, he has executed the dragon, and he has slaughtered the priests.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:27
Then Daniel took pitch, fat, and hair, and melted them together, and made lumps of them. He put these in the dragon’s mouth, so the dragon ate and burst apart. Daniel said, “Behold, these are the gods you all worship.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:27
Then Daniel took pitch, fat, and hair, and melted them together, and made lumps of them. He put these in the dragon’s mouth, so the dragon ate and burst apart. Daniel said, “Behold, these are the gods you all worship.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, so the dragon did eat and burst in sunder: and [Daniel ] said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon's mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ ἔλαβεν ὁ Δανιὴλ πίσσαν καὶ στέαρ καὶ τρίχας, καὶ ἥψησεν ἐπιτοαυτό· καὶ ἐποίησε μάζας, καὶ ἔδωκεν εἰς τὸ στόμα τοῦ δράκοντος, καὶ φαγὼν διεῤῥάγη ὁ δράκων· καὶ εἶπεν, ἴδετε τὰ σεβάσματα ὑμῶν.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Daniel 14:27
Quod cum audissent Babylonii, indignati sunt vehementer: et congregati adversum regem, dixerunt: Judæus factus est rex: Bel destruxit, draconem interfecit, et sacerdotes occidit.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Daniel 14:27
И҆ взѧ̀ данїи́лъ смо́лꙋ и҆ тꙋ́къ и҆ во́лнꙋ, и҆ возварѝ вкꙋ́пѣ, и҆ сотворѝ гомо́лꙋ, и҆ вве́же во ᲂу҆ста̀ ѕмі́ю, и҆ и҆з̾ѧ́дъ разсѣ́десѧ ѕмі́й. И҆ речѐ данїи́лъ: зри́те чти̑лища ва̑ша.
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 14:27
Тогда Даниил взял смолы, жира и волос, сварил это вместе и, сделав из этого ком, бросил его в пасть дракону, и дракон расселся. И сказал Даниил: вот ваши святыни!
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