Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

24 “Seventy (a)(A)weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to (b)finish the transgression, to (c)make an end of sin, to (B)make atonement for iniquity, to bring in (C)everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and (d)prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a (e)(D)decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until (f)(E)Messiah the (F)Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with (g)plaza and moat, even in times of distress. 26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the (h)Messiah will be (G)cut off and have (i)nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will (H)destroy the city and the sanctuary. And (j)its end will come with a (I)flood; even to the end (k)there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of (l)(J)abominations will come one who (m)makes desolate, even until a (K)complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who (n)makes desolate.”

Footnotes:

a. Daniel 9:24: ['Or ', units of seven, ', and so throughout the ch']
b. Daniel 9:24: ['Or ', restrain]
c. Daniel 9:24: ['Another reading is ', seal up sins]
d. Daniel 9:24: ['Lit ', prophet]
e. Daniel 9:25: ['Lit ', word]
f. Daniel 9:25: ['Or ', an anointed one]
g. Daniel 9:25: ['Or ', streets]
h. Daniel 9:26: ['Or ', anointed one]
i. Daniel 9:26: ['Or ', no one]
j. Daniel 9:26: ['Or ', his]
k. Daniel 9:26: ['Or ', war will be decreed for desolations]
l. Daniel 9:27: ['Or ', detestable things]
m. Daniel 9:27: ['Or ', causes horror]
n. Daniel 9:27: ['Or ', causes horror]

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