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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

but those transgressors of the law ordered that she be exposed so as to sate themselves with her beauty

Then Susanna screamed

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