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The Mashiach and Seventy Weeks

20 “While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Adonai my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God— 21 yes, while I was praying, Gabriel, the one I had seen in the earlier vision,[a] came to me swiftly about the time of the evening offering.

22 “He instructed me and said to me: ‘Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:21 cf. Luke 1:19, 16.

The Seventy “Sevens”

20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing(A) my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill(B) 21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel,(C) the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.(D) 22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.(E)

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