Besides these feasts, which were to be observed with sacrifices and religious worship, the Lord also ordained that the land should not be seeded every seventh year (the Sabbath Year) and that every 50th year should be a Year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25:8–55). The beginning of the jubilee was announced by the sounding of trumpets on the first day of Tisri. During that year the land rested, as during the Sabbath Year. Every Jewish servant was freed, and every parcel of land that had been sold was returned