Bel and the Dragon 18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ As soon as the doors were opened, the king looked at the table, and shouted in a loud voice, ‘You are great, O Bel, and in you there is no deceit at all!’

¹⁹ But Daniel laughed and restrained the king from going in. ‘Look at the floor’, he said, ‘and notice whose footprints these are.’ ²⁰ The king said, ‘I see the footprints of men and women and children.’