Why Genesis 1 - 11 Has to be a Part of the Original Part of the Tetra/Pentateuch
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:14 am
The calculation of Jubilees.
The Samaritans still calculate the sabbatical years. The Jews gave up the practice (because they no longer have a priesthood). The sabbatical years have to be relative to 'something.' It would be impossible to know when seven year (and seven x seven + 1 year) cycles were completed if there wasn't a way of calculating how many years from Creation we are/were.You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field. In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.