23 (A)At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, (B)and I have come to tell it to you, for (C)you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word (D)and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

24 (E)“Seventy weeks[a] are decreed about your people and (F)your holy city, to finish (G)the transgression, to put an end to sin, (H)and to atone for iniquity, (I)to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and (J)to anoint a most holy place.[b] 25 (K)Know therefore and understand that (L)from the going out of the word to restore and (M)build Jerusalem to the coming of an (N)anointed one, a (O)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again[c] with squares and moat, (P)but in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall (Q)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come (R)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. (S)Its[d] end shall come with a flood, (T)and to the end there shall be war. (U)Desolations are decreed. 27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,[e] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. (V)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until (W)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:24 Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
  2. Daniel 9:24 Or thing, or one
  3. Daniel 9:25 Or there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again
  4. Daniel 9:26 Or His
  5. Daniel 9:27 Or seven; twice in this verse

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