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Daniel 9:2
New English Translation
Daniel 9:2
New English Translation
2 in the first year of his reign[a] I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books[b] that the number of years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem, which had come as the Lord’s[c] message to the prophet Jeremiah, would be 70 years.
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- Daniel 9:2 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.
- Daniel 9:2 tn Heb “books” or “scrolls.” The word “sacred” has been added to clarify that it refers to the Scriptures.
- Daniel 9:2 sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters that constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears 8 times in this chapter and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.
Daniel 9:2
English Standard Version
Daniel 9:2
English Standard Version
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to (A)the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
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