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If someone who kills Cain is punished seven times, then the one who kills me will be punished seventy-seven times!"

There he captured a young man from Succoth and demanded that he write down the names of all the seventy-seven officials and elders in the town.

Then the exiles who had come out of captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel. They presented twelve bulls for all the people of Israel, as well as ninety-six rams and seventy-seven male lambs. They also offered twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was given as a burnt offering to the Lord .

"A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

"No, not seven times," Jesus replied, "but seventy times seven!