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13 Then I heard two of the holy angels talking to each other. One of them said, “How long will it be until the daily sacrifice is restored again? How long until the destruction of the Temple is avenged and God’s people triumph?”

14 The other replied, “Twenty-three hundred days[a] must first go by.”

15 As I was trying to understand the meaning of this vision, suddenly a man was standing in front of me—or at least he looked like a man—

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 8:14 Twenty-three hundred days, literally, “Twenty-three hundred mornings and evenings.”

13 Then I heard a holy one(A) speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled(B)—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot(C) of the Lord’s people?”

14 He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”(D)

The Interpretation of the Vision

15 While I, Daniel, was watching the vision(E) and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man.(F)

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