Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

24Seventy
Or units of seven, and so throughout the ch
,
bweeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to
Or restrain
finish the transgression, to
Another reading is seal up sins
make an end of sin, to emake atonement for iniquity, to bring in feverlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and
Lit prophet
prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
25So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a
Lit word
,
idecree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until
Or an anointed one
,
kMessiah the lPrince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with
Or streets
plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
26Then after the sixty-two weeks the
Or anointed one
Messiah will be ocut off and have
Or no one
nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will qdestroy the city and the sanctuary. And
Or his
its end will come with a sflood; even to the end
Or war will be decreed for desolations
there will be war; desolations are determined.
27And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of
Or detestable things
,
vabominations will come one who
Or causes horror
makes desolate, even until a xcomplete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who
Or causes horror
makes desolate.”
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