BIBLE Book of Daniel (14) "Daniel reveals the deception of the priests of Bel". Having refused to worship the Babylonian idol Bel; Daniel must prove to Cyrus the Persian that all the food offered to him as a sacrifice is not consumed by the non-existent divinity; but by the priests and their families who steal them secretly. Sprinkling the floor with ash unbeknownst to the priests; it reveals the footprints of nocturnal visitors who entered the temple by a secret passage. Engraving from an edition of "La Bible" edited by Don Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613 - 1684); French theologian; biblicist and humanist. Paris; 1837