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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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  1. Daniel 9:2 tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.
  2. Daniel 9:2 tn Heb “books” or “scrolls.” The word “sacred” has been added to clarify that it refers to the Scriptures.
  3. 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.
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