Bel and the Dragon 6 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 14:6
Then Daniel smiled and said: O king, be not deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass without, neither hath he eaten at any time.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Daniel 14:6
Then Daniel said, smiling, “O king, do not make a mistake, for this one is clay on the inside and brass on the outside, and he has never eaten.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:6
Then the king said to him, “Don’t you think that Bel is a living god? Don’t you see how much he eats and drinks every day?”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) In this text: Daniel (Greek) 14:6
Then the king said to him, “Don’t you think that Bel is a living god? Don’t you see how much he eats and drinks every day?”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living God? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living god? or seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living god? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living god? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ βασιλεὺς, οὐ δοκεῖ σοι Βὴλ εἶναι ζῶν θεός; ἢ οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅσα ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν;
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Daniel 14:6
Et ait Daniel arridens: Ne erres, rex: iste enim intrinsecus luteus est, et forinsecus æreus, neque comedit aliquando.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Daniel 14:6
И҆ речѐ є҆мꙋ̀ ца́рь: не мни́тсѧ ли тѝ ви́лъ бы́ти жи́въ бо́гъ; и҆лѝ не ви́диши, коли́кѡ ꙗ҆́стъ и҆ пїе́тъ по всѧ̑ дни̑;
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 14:6
Царь сказал: не думаешь ли ты, что Вил неживой бог? не видишь ли, сколько он ест и пьет каждый день?
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