Daniel Old Greek 9:26: 7, 70, 62
Here in verses 26 and 27 of the Old Greek version of Daniel, the Greek text is very confusing when listing the numbers.
It literally says:
‘7 and 70 and 62’.
It could be listing several time periods as ‘7, 70, and 62’ or it could be ‘77 and 62’ since ‘7 and 70’ is the standard way of saying 77.
On the other hand, since we earlier had ‘70 weeks’ mentioned, the ‘7 and 70’ may could mean 7 times 70.
The Hebrew text (and Theodotion’s Greek version) is both different and clearer here; it separates it into ‘7 weeks and 62 weeks’, implying a total of 69 weeks before a final 70th week.
This ‘Old Greek’ text here may either be badly translated from Hebrew, or perhaps there was some textual corruption, or a copyist error. After all, this text comes from just one 10th or 14th century manuscript.