Bel and the Dragon

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a book of the Apocrypha that is included as chapter 14 of Daniel in the Douay Bible.

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Additions to Daniel.—The “additions to Daniel” are three in number: Susannah and the Elders, Bel and the Dragon, and The Song of the Three Children.

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We learn from the book of Bel and the Dragon that in Babylon was kept a great, live serpent, which the people worshipped.

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Daniel, with apocryphal additions—Song of the Three Children in the Furnace, History of Susannah, Story of Bel and the Dragon.

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He shall have no more to do with Bel and the Dragon.

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Such a long supper! but it must end sometime!—and then prayers, and then Dorcas had amused herself with Bel and the Dragon and Tobit awhile.

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