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21 (A)to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until (B)the land had made up for its sabbaths. (C)All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath [a](D)until seventy years were fulfilled.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 36:21 Lit to fulfill seventy years

10 “For thus says Yahweh, ‘When (A)seventy years have been fulfilled for Babylon, I will [a]visit you and establish My (B)good word to you, to return you to this place.

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  1. Jeremiah 29:10 Same Heb root as “punish” in Jer, cf. 5:9; 9:8; 29:32; 30:20

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, discerned in the books the (A)number of the years concerning which the word of [a]Yahweh came to (B)Jeremiah the prophet for the fulfillment of the laying waste of Jerusalem, namely, (C)seventy years.

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  1. Daniel 9:2 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15

“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [a]these (A)seventy years, was it actually for (B)Me that you fasted?

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  1. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and these