Bel and the Dragon 1-3

Wycliffe Bible

¹ And king Astyages was put to his fathers, and Cyrus of Persia took his realm. [And king Astyages is put to his fathers, and Cyrus of Persia received the kingdom of him.]

² Forsooth Daniel ate with the king, and was honoured above all the friends of him. [Forsooth Daniel was meat-frère of the king, and honoured above all the friends of him.]

³ Also an idol, Bel by name, was at Babylon, and twelve measures of clean flour, of which measures each contained three bushels, and forty sheep, and six measures of wine, that be called amphoras, were spended in it (or were spent upon it) each day. [And an idol, Bel by name, was with (the) men of Babylon, and there were spended in it by all days twelve measures artabis, and one contained three bushels of flour, and forty sheep, and of wine six amphoras.]