14 He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”
15 While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man.
16 I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
17 So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.”
18 While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up,
19 and said, “I am here to tell you what will happen at the conclusion of the time of wrath, because it refers to the appointed time of the end.
20 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.