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.
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.
28. And they came to the king, and said: Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy thee and thy house.
29. And the king saw that they pressed upon him violently: and being constrained by necessity he delivered Daniel to them.
30. And they cast him into the den of lions, and he was there six days.