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The Seventy Sets of Seven Detailed

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

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

24 “Seventy ‘sevens’[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city(A) to finish[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone(B) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness,(C) to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.[c]

25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild(D) Jerusalem until the Anointed One,[d](E) the ruler,(F) comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:24 Or ‘weeks’; also in verses 25 and 26
  2. Daniel 9:24 Or restrain
  3. Daniel 9:24 Or the most holy One
  4. Daniel 9:25 Or an anointed one; also in verse 26