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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #5: By the Crown of the Head

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

This one’s pretty fun and awesome, but it requires a bit of context first, so bear with me:

In “The Story of Bel and the Dragon,” we see a sort of alternate version (or maybe additional tale?) of Daniel in the Lion’s Den. The Persian King Cyrus, who with the Babylonians worships idols, commands Daniel to worship statues.

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