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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."
21
Then the king was enraged, and he arrested the priests and their wives and children. They showed him the secret doors through which they used to enter to consume what was on the table.
22
Therefore the king put them to death, and gave Bel over to Daniel, who destroyed it and its temple.
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