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24.  Seventy weeks are decreed: against thy people and thy holy city, For finishing transgression and completing sin and absolving iniquity: And bringing in everlasting rightness and sealing vision and prophet and anointing the Most Holy. The Ḳr. is followed in two cases, i.e., ‘completing’ (להתם) for ‘sealing’ (לחתם) and the sing. ‘sin’ (חטאת) for the pl. (חטאות); also the article with ‘transgression’ (הפשע) is elided. The display of the gerundial clauses above (so Häv.) represents the progress
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