Daniel. Daniel et Draco.
Douay-Rheims translation
14:22 And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians worshipped
him.
14:23 And the king said to Daniel: Behold thou canst not say now, that this
is not a living god: adore him therefore.
14:24 And Daniel said: I adore the Lord my God: for he is the living God:
but that is no living god.
14:25 But give me leave, O king, and I will kill this dragon without sword
or club. And the king said: I give thee leave.
14:26 Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them together:
and he made lumps, and put them into the dragon's mouth, and the dragon burst
asunder. And he said: Behold him whom you worshipped.
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.
14:28 And they came to the king, and said: Deliver us Daniel, or else we will
destroy thee and thy house.
14:29 And the king saw that they pressed upon him violently: and being constrained
by necessity he delivered Daniel to them.
14:30 And they cast him into the den of lions, and he was there six days.
14:31 And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given to them two
carcasses every day, and two sheep: but then they were not given unto them,
that they might devour Daniel.
14:32 Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc, and he had boiled pottage,
and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the field, to carry it
to the reapers.
14:33 And the angel of the Lord said to Habacuc: Carry the dinner which thou
hast into Babylon to Daniel, who is in the lions' den.
14:34 And Habacuc said: Lord, I never saw Babylon, nor do I know the den.
14:35 And the angel of the Lord took him by the top of his head, and carried
him by the hair of his head, and set him in Babylon over the den in the force
of his spirit.
14:36 And Habacuc cried, saying: O Daniel, thou servant of God, take the dinner
that God hath sent thee.
14:37 And Daniel said: Thou hast remembered me, O God, and thou hast not forsaken
them that love thee.
14:38 And Daniel arose and ate. And the angel of the Lord presently set Habacuc
again in his own place.
14:39 And upon the seventh day the king came to bewail Daniel: and he came
to the den, and looked in, and behold Daniel was sitting in the midst of the
lions.
14:40 And the king cried out with a loud voice, saying: Great art thou, O
Lord the God of Daniel. And he drew him out of the lions' den.
14:41 But those that bad been the cause of his destruction, he cast into the
den, and they were devoured in a moment before him.