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Day

In prophetic time measurement, one day stands for one year

Where Scripture defines it

“Thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.” (Ezekiel 4:6)

Confirmed at Numbers 14:34

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year.

Confirmed at Daniel 9:24-25

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people... unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks.

Confirmed at Daniel 7:25

And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Confirmed at Revelation 12:6

And the woman fled into the wilderness... that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

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