Dan 9:24-26 | NASB | e4.org | “ Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city , to finish the transgression , to make an end of sin , to make atonement for iniquity , to bring in everlasting righteousness , to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place .

‏ Daniel 9:24-26

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

24 “Seventy ^{▼▼ Or units of seven, and so throughout the ch
,} ^bweeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to ^{▼▼ Or restrain}finish the transgression, to ^{▼▼ Another reading is seal up sins}make an end of sin, to ^emake atonement for iniquity, to bring in ^feverlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and ^{▼▼ Lit prophet}prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a ^{▼▼ Lit word
,} ⁱdecree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ^{▼▼ Or an anointed one
,} ^kMessiah the ^lPrince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with ^{▼▼ Or streets}plaza and moat, even in times of distress. 26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the ^{▼▼ Or anointed one}Messiah will be ^ocut off and have ^{▼▼ Or no one}nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ^qdestroy the city and the sanctuary. And ^{▼▼ Or his}its end will come with a ^sflood; even to the end ^{▼▼ Or war will be decreed for desolations}there will be war; desolations are determined.