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Bel and the Dragon

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noun

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


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Of that scepticism which followed the refinements of rabbinism there is no trace, either here, or in Susanna, or in Bel and the Dragon.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford

Daniel in Hastings' B.D., that this and Bel and the Dragon are separate books in the LXX, have question marks justly affixed to them.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford

Daniel further exhibits a decision and an absence of self-distrust, in undertaking tasks of great risk, quite in accordance with his character as portrayed in the canonical book, and in Bel and the Dragon.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford

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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

The Vulgate, which follows Θ closely, appends the first verse of Bel and the Dragon as the conclusion of this story.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford

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