Daniel 9:20-23
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20Now while I was aspeaking and praying, and bconfessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and 1presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 21and while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man aGabriel, whom I had seen in the vision 1previously, 2touched me 3in my extreme weariness about the time of the bevening offering. 22Then he made me understand and spoke with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with aunderstanding. 23“At the abeginning of your supplications the word was issued, so I have come to tell you, for you are 1,bhighly esteemed; so understand the message and gain cunderstanding in what has appeared.