²⁹ But they are your people,^(A) your inheritance^(B) that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.^(C)”

The Seventy “Sevens”

²⁰ While I was speaking and praying, confessing^(Q) my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill^(R)— ²¹ while I was still in prayer, Gabriel,^(S) the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.^{(T) 22} He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.^{(U) 23} As soon as you began to pray,^(V) a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed.^(W) Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:^(X)

²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’^[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city^(Y) to finish^[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone^(Z) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness,^(AA) 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^(AB) Jerusalem until the Anointed One,^[d](AC) the ruler,^(AD) comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.^{(AE) 26} After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death^(AF) and will have nothing.^[e] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:^(AG) War will continue until the end, and desolations^(AH) have been decreed.^{(AI) 27} He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’^[f] In the middle of the ‘seven’^[g] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple^[h] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed^(AJ) is poured out on him.^[i]”^[j]

¹¹ But Moses sought the favor^(A) of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?^(B)

¹⁵ Remember that you were slaves^(A) in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you.^(B) That is why I give you this command today.