Dan 9:24 | NETfull | STEP | “Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

Daniel 9:24

24 “Seventy weeks ^{▼▼ Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27–28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9–10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2–3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.} have been determined
concerning your people and your holy city
to put an end to ^{▼▼ Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.} rebellion,
to bring sin ^{▼▼ The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).} to completion, ^{▼▼ The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (l^ekhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.}
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual ^{▼▼ Or “everlasting.”} righteousness,
to seal up ^{▼▼ The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.} the prophetic vision, ^{▼▼ Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.}
and to anoint a most holy place. ^{▼▼ Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.}