24“Seventy ‘sevens’9:24 Or ‘weeks’; also in verses 25 and 26 are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish9:24 Or restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.9:24 Or the most holy One
24“Seventy 9:24 Or units of seven, and so throughout the chweeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to 9:24 Or bring to an endfinish the wrongdoing, to 9:24 Another reading is seal up sinsmake an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and 9:24 Lit prophetprophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
24“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.
24“Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] 9:24 I.e. cut off, decided, determined. This phrase occurs only here and indicates a period of time set aside for a certain purpose. The prophecy that follows pertains only to the Jews and Jerusalem. It records six objectives to be achieved by the Messiah. The first three are resolved by the death and resurrection of Jesus; the final three are resolved at His second coming.have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
24Seventy weeks9:24 Or Seventy sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.9:24 Or the Holy of Holies or the Most Holy One; literally the Most Holy
24“The Lord has appointed 70 ‘weeks’ for your people and your holy city. During that time, acts against God’s law will be stopped. Sin will come to an end. And the evil things people do will be paid for. Then everyone will always do what is right. Everything that has been made known in visions and prophecies will come true. And the Most Holy Room in the temple will be anointed.