25 turned the “Jobel” into a seventh sabbatical year, perhaps owing to “practical and economic motives” (p. 51), and thus the discrepancy arose. Both these theories, however, “cut the knot” rather than “unravelling” it, and neither is very convincing. The likelihood of finding a solution along these lines is rejected by Karl Elliger.33 Other scholars have suggested harmonizing the texts, applying the theory that freedom was to be granted after the sixth year of a slave’s service unless the Jubilee