Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks ¹  have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to ²  rebellion, to bring sin ³  to completion, ⁴  to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual ⁵  righteousness, to seal up ⁶  the prophetic vision, ⁷  and to anoint a most holy place. ⁸ 

Le 8:15; Le 25:8; Nu 14:34; 2Ch 29:24; Ps 2:6; Ps 45:7; Isa 51:6,8; Isa 53:10; Isa 53:11; Isa 56:1; Isa 61:1; Jer 23:5,6; La 4:22; Eze 4:6; Eze 28:12; Mt 1:21; Mt 11:13; Mr 1:24; Lu 1:35; Lu 4:18-21; Lu 24:25-27,44,45; Joh 1:41; Joh 3:34; Joh 19:28-30; Ac 3:14; Ac 3:22; Ro 3:21,22; Ro 5:10; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:18-20; 2Co 5:21; Php 3:9; Col 1:20; Col 2:14; Heb 1:8,9; Heb 2:17; Heb 7:26; Heb 9:11; Heb 9:12-14; Heb 9:26; Heb 10:14; 2Pe 1:1; 1Jo 3:8; Re 3:7; Re 14:6

¹ tn Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27-28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9-10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2-3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.

² tc Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.

³ tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).

⁴ tn The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (lÿkhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.

⁵ tn Or “everlasting.”

⁶ sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.

⁷ tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.

⁸ tn Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.