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Then Daniel took some pitch, fat, and hair; these he boiled together and made into cakes. He put them into the mouth of the dragon, and when the dragon ate them, he burst. “This,” he said, “is what you revered.

This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, and in their fear they yielded to you; but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your lawlessness

Here I am about to die, though I have done none of the things for which these men have condemned me

Then Susanna screamed

But both turned back and arrived at the same spot. When they asked each other the reason, they admitted their lust, and then they agreed to look for an occasion when they could find her alone.

He shall have no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one in whom women delight;* for no god shall he have regard, because he shall make himself greater than all.

and heeeere come the Romans!

and the sound of his voice was like the roar of a multitude

But the vision left me desolate, without understanding.

I, Daniel, was greatly terrified by my thoughts, and my face became pale, but I kept the matter to myself