Bel and the Dragon 2 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 14:2
Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel: and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and sixty vessels of wine.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Daniel 14:2
Now there was an idol with the Babylonians named Bel. And each day there was expended on him twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:2
Daniel lived with the king, and was honored above all his friends.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:2
Daniel lived with the king, and was honoured above all his friends.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
And Daniel conversed with the king, and was honoured above all his friends.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
And Daniel lived with the king, and was honoured above all his friends.
Individual translator
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ ἦν Δανιὴλ συμβιωτὴς τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ἔνδοξος ὑπὲρ πάντας τοὺς φίλους αὐτοῦ.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Daniel 14:2
Erat quoque idolum apud Babylonios nomine Bel: et impendebantur in eo per dies singulos similæ artabæ duodecim, et oves quadraginta, vinique amphoræ sex.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Daniel 14:2
И҆ бѧ́ше данїи́лъ сожи́тельствꙋющь со царе́мъ и҆ сла́венъ па́че всѣ́хъ дрꙋгѡ́въ є҆гѡ̀.
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 14:2
И Даниил жил вместе с царем и был славнее всех друзей 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