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Abraham - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Abraham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Still childless at the age of 76, Abraham subsequently had a son (Ishmael) with his wife's maidservant Hagar, and then, at the age of 100, a son (Isaac) with his wife Sarah. |
 | | When Abraham was 99, God made a covenant with him, saying that he would be the father of many nations, and that male circumcision would be a sign of that covenant (Genesis 17:1–14). |
 | | According to Muslim tradition, Abraham and his son, Ishmael, rebuilt the Kaaba in the quadrangle of the Great Mosque at Mecca, and the horns of the ram of sacrifice were fixed to it. |
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