4. The king honored Bel and worshipped it daily, but Daniel worshipped his own God. So the king said to him, "Why don’t you worship Bel?"
5. He said, "I don’t honor idols made by humans, rather the living God who created heaven and earth and has authority over all living things."
6. The king said to him, "You believe Bel is a living god, don’t you? Haven’t you seen how much he eats and drinks every day?"
7. Daniel laughed and said, "Don’t be taken in, Your Majesty! This is clay on the inside and brass on the outside. It hasn’t eaten or drunk anything, ever!"
8. Furious, the king called for his priests. He said to them,"If you don’t tell me who eats these provisions, you die! But if you can prove that Bel eats them, Daniel will die for insulting Bel."
9. Daniel said to the king,"That’s fair enough."Now Bel had seventy priests plus their wives and children.
10. The king went with Daniel to Bel’s temple.