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"Seventyweeks have been decreed for your people and your holycity, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to makeatonement for iniquity, to bring in everlastingrighteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the mostholy place.
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"So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuildJerusalemuntilMessiah the Prince 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 cutoff and havenothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; 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 abominations will come one who makesdesolate, even until a completedestruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makesdesolate."