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"So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a 1decree to restore and rebuildJerusalemuntil2Messiah the 3Prince there will be sevenweeks and sixty-two*weeks; it will be builtagain, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
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"Then after the sixty-two*weeks the Messiah will be 4cutoff and havenothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will 5destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a 6flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
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"And he will make a firmcovenant with the many for oneweek, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of 7abominations will come one who makesdesolate, even until a 8completedestruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makesdesolate."