Not only was the seventy-weeks structure built on the sabbath-jubilee pattern of Leviticus 25, but “Daniel 9 as a whole follows the covenant administration pattern of Leviticus 26. The prayer (vv. 4ff.) corresponds to the . . . confession of Leviticus 26:40, and the prophecy corresponds to the covenant restitution and renewal of Leviticus 26:24ff.”[5] Too often, this important context is overlooked.
