seven Sabbaths of yeares] That is, fourtie nine yeares; and in the beginning of the fiftieth yeare was the Jubilee, so called, because the joyfull tydings of libertie were publikely proclaimed by the found of the Trumpet, or Cornet made of a Rams horne, at the end of the fourtie ninth yeare, for the release of men from servitude, debts, mortgage, and the restitution of estates to the first owners, from whom in the former yeares they had been alienated. During this whole yeare there was neither sowing nor reaping, and when it was expired, the next yeare, which was fiftie one, began the reckoning for the succeeding Jubile.