[Avodah] children of Avos

[Simon Montagu via Avodah]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Eli Turkel via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> But Avraham had children much later with Hagar. If we take the midrash
> that Yitzchak was 38 at the time of the akeidah and that Sara dies shortly
> afterwards and that Avraham then married Hagar then Avraham was at least
> 140 when he started having another 6 children. Assuming they were not
> sextuplets he was close to 150 for the last one.
>
>
With or without the midrash, even if the akeida wasn't shortly before Sarah
died, we know that she lived to be 127, so Abraham was then 137 and the
rest follows as you wrote.
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