Third, the only other usage of שׁבעים by Daniel is in 10:2, 3 where the phrase שׁלשׁה שׁבעים ימים is literally “three units of seven days” or twenty-one days. This has reference to Daniel’s mourning for three weeks since the word ימים is included. The very fact that Daniel adds ימים in, indicates that he did not want his readers to think of the unit of seven the same way it was used in chapter nine. Everyone would have realized that Daniel would not have fasted twenty-one years, but the fact that