# Bel and the Dragon 1:3

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/bel-and-the-dragon/1/3
- Book: [Bel and the Dragon](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/bel-and-the-dragon)
- Chapter: [Bel and the Dragon 1](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/bel-and-the-dragon/1)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/bel-and-the-dragon#background-and-history
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Now the Babylons had an idol, called Bel, and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.