11. And when you have entered in the morning, if you have not found that Bel has consumed all, we will suffer death, or else Daniel will, who has lied against us."
12. But they had no concern because they had made a secret entrance under the table, and they always went in through it and devoured those things.
13. And so it happened, after they had departed, that the king set the foods before Bel, and Daniel commanded his servants, and they brought ashes, and he sifted them throughout the temple in the sight of the king, and, as they left, they shut the door, and after sealing it with the king's ring, they departed.
14. But the priests entered by night, according to their custom, with their wives, and their sons, and they ate and drank everything.
15. But the king arose at first light, and Daniel with him.
16. And the king said, "Are the seals unbroken, Daniel?" And he answered, "They are unbroken, O king."
17. And as soon as he had opened the door, the king stared at the table, and cried out with a loud voice, "Great are you, O Bel, and there is not any deceit with you."
18. And Daniel laughed, and he held back the king, so that he would not enter, and he said, "Look at the pavement, notice whose footsteps these are."