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COUNTING THE WEEKS 83
ty weeks have been divided concerning thy people
and concerning thy holy city-to put an end to
the transgression, and fill up the measure of sin,
and put a propitiatory-covering over iniquity, and
bring in the righteousness of ages, and affix a
seal to vision and prophecy, and anoint the holy
of holies ." Daniel 9 :23,24, Roth . Gabriel not
mentioning days, the weeks are not to be viewed
as weeks of days, totaling 490 days . The weeks
are made up of seven years each, and so very
modern translators render it : "Seventy weeks of
years are destined for your people," etc. AAT
"Seventy weeks of years are fixed for your people
and for your sacred city," etc. Moff. Hence
the seventy weeks multiply up to 490 years . They
were divided up into three periods, 1 seven
weeks, 2 sixty-two weeks, and 3 one week ;
that is to say, a 49 years, b 434 years, and
c 7 years ; totaling 490 years. When do they
begin to count?
4 Gabriel continued : "Thou must know then and
understand : From the going forth of the word to
restore and to build Jerusalem-unto the Anointed
One the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixtytwo
weeks,-the broadway and the wall shall
again be built, even in the end of the times ."
Daniel 9 :25, Roth. The starting point of the
seventy weeks is the going forth of the word or
command "to restore and to build Jerusalem" .
Compare Genesis 29 :27.
4, 5 . a Why did not that time period begin counting
in 537 B .C.? b Why not in the 7th year of Artaxerxes?