“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.”
Count off seven sabbath years — seven times seven years — so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. The Jubilee is built on the seven-times-seven sabbatical structure: seven Sabbath years of seven years each produce forty-nine years, and the fiftieth year is the Jubilee. The mathematical structure mirrors the Feast of Weeks' seven-times-seven-day structure leading to the fiftieth day of Pentecost. The Jubilee is to the agricultural calendar what Pentecost is to the festival calendar: the completion of a seven-times-seven cycle leading to the fiftieth-day beginning of something new.
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