the ground fallow for the seventh year? Or, in other words, be able to tell time. Furthermore, how could they know when 49 years was up to celebrate the 50th year (Year of the Jubilee) to set debtors free? God created the sun and moon to govern the seasons (each season is 3 months) and years: Genesis 1:14 and reconfirmed in Genesis 8:21-23: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." Day and night...that?s 24 hours for days and that is four seasons!! (Some have argued that there were no seasons if the earth were untilted until the Flood. But here we clearly see Seasons in the beginning from Genesis on.) So his people could not miss when a year was up! Hugh Ross in his Old Earth Theology tries to maintain that the days in Genesis were not literal 24 hour days, yet God defines a day ("yom") in this very first Chapter of Genesis 1:14-19. So, a day is day, even here. And, if a day is not a day, then what is a year? What is a season, if it is not three months? Exodus 12:40-41 reads: "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day (NIV: to the very day) it came to pass, that