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If seven lives are taken to pay for killing Cain, Seventy-seven will be taken if anyone kills me."

he captured a young man from Sukkoth and questioned him. The young man wrote down for Gideon the names of the seventy-seven leading men of Sukkoth.

"Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple will be rededicated.

"No, not seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy times seven,