9:24 Seventy weeks. Most interpreters view the units of “seventy weeks” as representing 490 years (9:24–27 note). These so-called seventy weeks of years are then divided into three subunits of 49 years (“seven weeks,” v. 25); 434 years (“sixty-two weeks,” v. 26); and 7 years (“one week,” v. 27). Interpreters differ over whether these subunits are to be viewed as a continuous sequence or as having time intervals between them.