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And whiles I
was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21
I
was even yet speaking in prayer, and that man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice.
22
And he caused me to understand and spoke with me and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to cause thee to understand the interpretation.
23
At the beginning of thy supplications, the word went forth, and I have come to teach it unto thee; for thou
art a man greatly beloved: therefore understand the word, and understand the vision.
24
Seventy weeks are determined {Heb. Cut} upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the prevarication and to conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.
25
Know therefore and understand
that from the going forth of the word to cause
the people to return and to build Jerusalem unto the Anointed {Heb. Messiah} Prince,
there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks,
while the street shall be built again and the wall,
even in troublous times.
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And after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed
One {Heb. Messiah} shall be killed and shall have nothing: (and the ruling people that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; whose end
shall be as a flood, until at the end of the war it shall be cut off
with desolation).
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In one week (they are now seventy) he shall confirm the covenant by many: and at the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the many abominations, desolation shall come, even until complete destruction shall be poured out upon the abominable
people.