"... Others have suggested that instead of reading “fifth year,” the text originally read “seventh year” because Jubilees was now turning to a different subject, the matter of the sabbatical year ... Jubilees 7:37-39 would thus return us to the writing of the original author, and this seems all the more likely because these verses are altogether characteristic of his thinking: Observe the seventh-year agricultural rest, he has Noah tell his descendants, because this is how Enoch, your father’s father, commanded his son Methuselah; then Methuselah his son Lamech; and Lamech commanded me everything that his fathers had commanded him. In other words, once again a human being initiates a practice that was later to become a divine law, the law of the seventh fallow year (Exodus 23:11, Leviticus 25:2-7) and then passes the practice on to his descendants ..."