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.
20. The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
21. The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.