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23 At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and now I have come to declare[a] it, for you are highly esteemed, and so consider the word and understand the vision.

The Seventy Sets of Seven Detailed

24 “Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city,[b] to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin[c] and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place.[d] 25 And you must know and you must understand[e] that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed[f] onea leader—will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;[g] it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but in a time of oppression.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:23 Or “deliver”
  2. Daniel 9:24 Literally “for the city of your holiness”
  3. Daniel 9:24 Or “to make an end to sin”
  4. Daniel 9:24 Literally “the holy place of holy places”
  5. Daniel 9:25 Or “so you are to know and discern” (NASB), or “know then and understand” (e.g. NEB)
  6. Daniel 9:25 Or “messiah”
  7. Daniel 9:25 Literally “weeks seven and weeks sixty and two”
  8. Daniel 9:25 Literally “in distress/oppression of the times/time”