TABLE 5a. Four Views of the Era of Adam Page 5
		BOOK OF JUBILEES								MASOREH TEXT (King James)				SAMARITAN TEXT			GREEK SEPTUAGINT TEXT
		Age at son’s birth							Age at son’s birth					Age at son’s birth			Age at son’s birth
Adam (3957 + 479 = 4436)			130				3957 BC				130		3957 BC		130	4436 BC		230		5504 BC
Seth					105						105				105			205
Enos					90						90				90			190
1^st Cainan					70						70				70			170
Mahalaleel					65						65				65			165
Jared					62						162				62			162
Enoch					65						65				65			165
Methuselah					67						187				67			187
Lamech					53						182				53			182
Noah before flood					600						600				600			600
Adam to Flood					1307		2650 BC				1656		2301 BC		1307	3129 BC			2256	3248 BC
Shem after flood				2							2				2			2
Arphaxad (born 2 yrs. after flood)						35	101 yrs.				35		101 yrs.		135	401 yrs		135		401 yrs.
Salah				30							30				130			130
Eber						34		34							134			134
Peleg				1408								1757	251 x 7		1708	427 x 4		2657
	Date of the Flood In the 427-year pattern in the above TABLE 4b, Methuselah died in the year of the flood, in 1708 AM (1656 + 52) (1307 + 401). The Samaritan text says the flood was in 1307. The book of Jubilees says the flood was in the 27^th jubilee (26 x 49 = 1274), the 5^th sabbatical (4 x 7 = 28), the 6^th day (5 x 1 = 5). These total 1307 years (1274 + 28 + 5 = 1307). The Hebrew Masoreh text says 1656 years, and the Greek Septuagint says there were 2256 years according to Josephus. Date of the Fall of Babel Bible commentators rarely disclose a date for the fall of Babel, and yet it is plainly stated twice. “Unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg: for in his days was the earth divided” (Gen 10:25 & I Chron 1:19). In the Masoretic Text (MT) reflected in the King James Version, Peleg was born 251 sabbaticals after Adam. In the Samaritan Text (Pentateuch), Peleg was born 244 sabbaticals after Adam, a difference of 49 years. It is assumed that there was only one record of the generations before the flood and that Moses referred to that text. However, three versions have evolved. Here is how they are likely interrelated:
	Jubilees 49 years Apart? The above TABLE 5a is evidence of sabbaticals prior to the exodus, prior to Moses and that the jubilees were 49 years apart, not 50. This accounts for the Hebrew calendar counting sevens, 49s and 19s from the era of Adam, or A.M., Aera Mundi. The 50-year view was adopted by the early rabbinical society prior to the Bar Kochba revolt against the Roman occupiers, in 132 AD. The priests conjectured there was a jubilee 14 years after the temple was destroyed in 69-70 AD. Therefore, there would be a jubilee in 14 plus 49 years after 69-70 AD, in 162-163 AD. The conjecture was based upon the view that there was a jubilee 14 years after the Babylonians destroyed the first temple in 587 BC. However, the rabbinical date for the destruction of the first temple was 421 BC, instead of 587. They had subtracted 166 years, which were restored by the Cyrus Cylinder and Persian Behistun Inscription. Allegedly, the temple was allegedly burned in 421 (not 587 BC), 17 jubilees (850 years) after Joshua crossed the Jordan, and the jubilees were allegedly 50 years apart during the first temple. The jubilee cycle began 14 years later, in the 15^th year after Joshua’s conquest began. However, since Moses conquered the area east of the Jordan during the year prior to Joshua’s conquest, it seems strange they would not plow and reap immediately and not need to wait 14 years, and it is strange that the jubilees suddenly became 49 years apart after the temple burned. Dr. Benedict Zuchermann, in a Treatise on the Sabbatical Cycle and the Jubilee, page 24, wrote his conclusion, saying: “We thus arrived at the conclusion that the Jubilee was certainly celebrated in the fiftieth year, that, however, such fiftieth year was the first in the eighth Sabbatical cycle, and was included in the next period of the Jubilee; consequently the Jubilee-period consisted only of 49 years. R. Jehudah’s system is ‘the stone which the builders refused,” and may serve as the foundation of consistent chronology.” This means that, if the jubilee were, for example, announced on September 10 in a sabbatical year, it would end on September 1 in the next year, after 355 days (12 moons). This means the jubilee actually begins in the fall, after 48½ years (during the sabbatical of the 49^th year), and ends after 49½ years (in the fall of the 50^th year).

TABLE 5b. Four Views of the Era of Adam
			BOOK OF JUBILEES									MASOREH TEXT (King James)					SAMARITAN TEXT				GREEK SEPTUAGINT TEXT
			Age at son’s birth								Age at son’s birth						Age at son’s birth				Age at son’s birth
Adam (3957 + 479 = 4436)					130				3957 BC				130		3957 BC			130		4436 BC			230	5504 BC
Seth							105						105					105					205
Enos							90						90					90					190
1^st Cainan							70						70					70					170
Mahalaleel							65						65					65					165
Jared							62						162					62					162
Enoch							65						65					65					165
Methuselah							67						187					67					187
Lamech							53						182					53					182
Noah before flood							600						600					600					600
Adam to Flood		2650 BC 1307											1656		2301 BC			1307		3129 BC		2256		3248 BC
Shem after flood						2							2					2					2	401 yrs
Arphaxad (born 2 yrs. after flood)								35	101 yrs.				35		101 yrs.			135		401 yrs			135
Salah						30							30					130					130
Eber						34				34								134					134
Peleg						1408							1757		251 x 7			1708		427 x 4			2657
Peleg						30							30					30					130
Reu						32							32					132					132
Serug						57							30					130					130
Nahor 251 yrs.						62			251 yrs.				29		541 yrs.			29		or 79 541 yrs.			79
Terah						70							130					130		or 70			70
Abraham						1659			1949 BC				2008		251x8			2259		251x9 2177 BC			3198	2177 BC
	Note: The rabbinical view dates Adam as 3761 BC instead of 3957 BC by subtracting 196 years (4 jubilees). It subtracts 60 years by alleging that Abraham born when his father was 70, instead of 130, and the temple was allegedly founded in 832 BC, instead of 968 BC. This subtracts another 136 years. These two reductions totaling four jubilees, or 196 years (60 + 136 = 196) moves the rabbinical date of Creation from 3957 BC down to 3761 BC. It is assumed that there was only one record of the generations before the flood and that Moses referred to that text. However, three versions have evolved. Here is how they are likely interrelated:
				To Noah’s birth (Masoreh text) To the Flood (Samaritan text) To the Flood (Masoreh text) To Shem’s death To the Flood (Septuagint text)										1656 502 2158 98 2256		AFTER ADAM 1056 251 1307 349 1656 349 2005 251 2256			Noah’s death

Six years to Sow, Prune and Gather

A view often quoted to support having jubilees 50 years apart is based upon Leviticus 25:2-4. “When you come into the land (of Canaan) which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbatical… Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyards, and gather in the fruit… But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest... you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.” Critics say this means the jubilee year must be inserted between two seven-year periods as a 50^th year. Nevertheless, these same critics use Daniel’s 70-weeks (Dan 9) from 457 BC to 34 AD to interpret prophesy. This defines the jubilee as 49+1, 98+1, 147+1, 196+1, etc. It does not interrupt the succession of sabbatical years (Rabbi Jehudah).

In contrast, it is well known that the day of Pentecost is after counting seven Sabbaths. “When you come into the land which I give unto you… you shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath… even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days…” (Lev 23:10, 15-17). None of these critics claim that the 50^th day interferes with the seven-day week because it would not allow six days for working prior to the next Sabbath (which is commanded in Leviticus 23:3).

Sixth Year Provides Food for three Years:

Recall that all years, including years 6, 7, 8, 9, and years 48, 49, 50 and 51 began in the spring after the exodus, but plowing and sowing were not allowed after the previous fall if gathering and reaping were not allowed in the next spring and summer. The Israelites had their first reaping in the spring, when the manna ceased.

In the fall of the sixth year, they were not allowed to plow and sow because they could not reap and gather during the next spring and summer of the seventh year.

In the fall of the seventh year, they were not allowed to plow and sow if it were the 49^th year. A trumpet was sounded to warn farmers not to plow and sow that fall because they were not reap and gather during the next spring and summer of the eighth year, the jubilee year.

The 50^th year (the 8^th year) began in the spring, but plowing and sowing were not allowed in the fall of the previous seventh year (Lev 25:9) because gathering and reaping were not allowed in the next spring and summer of the jubilee year.

In the fall of the eighth year, they were allowed to plow and sow because they were allowed to reap and gather during the next spring and summer of the ninth year (Lev 25:22).

The ninth year began in the spring, and plowing and sowing were allowed in the fall of the previous eighth year because gathering and reaping were allowed in the next spring and summer of the ninth year (Lev 25:22).

This is the rationale for years to begin in the spring but also to begin in the previous seventh month as found in all Hebrew calendars. The jubilee, therefore, does not coincide with the sabbatical year but is set announced, recognized, sanctified, set apart at the last half of the seventh year. It ended in the autumn of the 50^th year, that is, in the eighth year (Lev 25:22).

The 50-Year Deception

Those who are deceived don’t know they have been deceived. If they did, they wouldn’t be deceived. This is especially true in the case for dating the jubilee. Here is some background on how the deception began 2,000 years ago.

In 132-133 AD, Simon bar Kochba and his priestly uncle incited a revolt to oust the Roman occupiers and have their land restored in fulfillment of the jubilee year. The rationale was that the temple was destroyed by the Romans in 69-70 AD, at the end of a sabbatical year, and a jubilee occurred 14 years after the temple was destroyed; therefore, another jubilee would be 14 plus 49 years, in 132-133 AD.

The dating was based upon the belief that the first temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 588-587 BC, at the end of a sabbatical year, and a jubilee occurred 14 years after the temple was destroyed (Ezek 40:1).

The dating was also based upon placing the destruction of the first temple in 422-421 BC, 490 years before 69-70 AD. To do this, they had to subtract 166 years. Again, the true date is 587 BC.

Their date in which Josiah found the lost temple scroll was 457 instead of 166 years earlier, in 623 BC.

After setting 421 as the date Jerusalem was destroyed, they could count backwards 850 years (17 jubilees of 50 years each) to find the date in which Joshua crossed the Jordan into Canaan allegedly in 1272-1271 BC. This accounts for the jubilee cycle allegedly beginning 14 years after Joshua’s entry and aligning with the alleged jubilee 14 years after the temple was destroyed.

If we follow this alignment, today’s jubilees would be 28 years later than the ones that align with the two dates mentioned above for the “year of Creation” in 3957 and 3761 BC.

Nevertheless, the fifty-year system was perpetuated for 2,000 years and promoted by Talmudical authorities, such as, Sedar Olam, the sages, and rabbis. Catholic jubilee is in years 50, 100, 150, etc. independent of a successive sabbatical cycle.

TABLE 5c. Four Views of the Era of Adam
			BOOK OF JUBILEES										MASOREH TEXT (King James)					SAMARITAN TEXT				GREEK SEPTUAGINT TEXT
			Age at son’s birth									Age at son’s birth						Age at son’s birth				Age at son’s birth
Adam (3957 + 479 = 4436)				130						3957 BC					130	3957 BC			130	4436 BC			230		5504 BC
Seth							105								105				105				205
Enos							90								90				90				190
1^st Cainan							70								70				70				170
Mahalaleel							65								65				65				165
Jared							62								162				62				162
Enoch							65								65				65				165
Methuselah							67								187				67				187
Lamech							53								182				53				182
Noah before flood							600								600				600				600
Adam to Flood		2650 BC 1307								yrs.					1656	2301 BC			1307	3129 BC			2256		3248 BC
Shem after flood						2									2				2				2
Arphaxad (born 2 yrs. after flood)								35		101 yrs.					35	101 yrs.			135	401 yrs			135		401 yrs
Salah						30									30				130				130
Eber						34					34								134				134
Peleg 427 x 4 1708 yrs						30				1757 yrs					30	251 x 7			130	1708 yrs 427 x 4			130		2657 yrs
Reu						32									32				132				132
Serug						57									30				130				130
Nahor 251 yrs.						62				251 yrs.					29	541 yrs.			29	or 79 541 yrs.			79
Terah						70									130				130	or 70			70
Adam to Peleg															1757	< 251 x 7
Flood to Abraham						352									352	1949 BC			952				1072
Adam to Abraham		2298 BC 1659								yrs.					2008	< 251 x 8			2259	< 251 x 9			3198
Abraham						100									100	1949 BC			100	2177 BC			100		2177 BC
Isaac 251 yrs.						60				251 yrs.					60	251 yrs.			60	251 yrs.			60
Jacob						91									91				91				91
Joseph						251				2047 BC					251	1698 BC			251	1926 BC			251		1926 BC
FROM ADAM TO JOSEPH						1910				yrs.		2259				< 251 x 9			2510	< 251 x 10				3449
						-500									-251				-243
FROM ADAM TO EXODUS					2410				yrs.					2510 yrs			1447 BC		2753 yrs		1683 BC
												251 x 10					+243 =		2753 yrs
	Note: The Samaritan Text has Joshua crossing the Jordan River into Canaan in the spring, after the 40th year after the exodus, after the 399^th sabbatical after Adam (2793 years), in the 57^th jubilee (57 x 49 + 1).
	When is the Next Sabbatical and Jubilee? Why study sabbaticals and jubilees? The above evidence shows they are an integral part of God’s over-all master plan and may help us understand the time of the end. Is there any historical proof of a jubilee during the current era? Dr. Zuchermann cites Matthew Paris in Hist., Major, London, 1686, p. 128, claiming that Richard Coeur de Lion (the Lionhearted, a Commander of the Third Crusade) was coronated at the beginning of a jubilee year, on Sunday, September 3, 1189 AD. http://www.sacredcalendar.info/Jubilee.html Zuchermann says that date was Elul 19, eleven days before the Jewish new year on Tishri 1 and 21 days before the day of Atonement, Tishri 10, when the jubilee is announced (A Treatise on the Sabbatical Cycle and the Jubilee, p. 55). 17 jubilees after 1189 brings us to a jubilee in 2022 AD, which is 42 jubilees after Herod captured Jerusalem in 37 BC. 2022 AD is 49 jubilees after Herod conquered Jerusalem in 37 BC, and 427 sabbaticals after Solomon’s temple.

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