14. He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”
15. While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man.
16. And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”
17. As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
18. While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.
19. He said: “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.