Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: In the brief but autonomous companion narrative of the dragon ( 14:23 -30 ) , `` there was a great dragon , which the Babylonians revered . ''
Simplified: In the brief companion narrative of the Dragon ( 14:23 -- 30 ) , `` there was a great dragon , which the Babylonians revered . ''