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25 Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven[a] will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One[b]—comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses,[c] despite the perilous times.

26 “After this period of sixty-two sets of seven,[d] the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end. 27 The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven,[e] but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds,[f] he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration,[g] until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:25a Hebrew Seven sevens plus sixty-two sevens.
  2. 9:25b Or an anointed one; similarly in 9:26. Hebrew reads a messiah.
  3. 9:25c Or and a moat, or and trenches.
  4. 9:26 Hebrew After sixty-two sevens.
  5. 9:27a Hebrew for one seven.
  6. 9:27b Hebrew And on the wing; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  7. 9:27c Hebrew an abomination of desolation.

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