Gabriel’s Announcement and Presentation of the Seventy Sets of Seven

²⁰ Now I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before^[a] Yahweh my God, on behalf of the holy mountain of my God.^{[b] 21} And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously,^[c] in my weariness touched me^[d] at the time of the evening offering. ²² And he instructed me and he spoke with me and he said, “Daniel I have now come out^[e] to teach you understanding.