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seals on the rings were often made of agate, carnelian, or sardonyx. The ring was worn on the little finger. Documents were often rolled as a scroll (or folded flat), with small leather straps tied around them. Hot wax was poured directly on the parchment, and the seal on the ring impressed on the document. Many seals have been found throughout the years in archeological excavations throughout the Middle East. 4. Rabbi Shira Milgrom, “Covenanting,” Weekly Torah Commentaries, MyJewishLearning.com, http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/Weekly_Torah_Commentary/lekhlkha_uahc5762.htm (accessed September 4, 2008). 5. H. Clay Trumbull, The Blood Covenant (Kirkwood, MO: Impact Books, 1975), 6, 10. 6. Ibid., 16–17. 7. Ibid., 37–38. 8. Ibid., 317. 9. Abraham was one hundred when Isaac was born, and Sarah was ninety. Therefore Abraham was seventy-five when he left for Canaan (Gen. 12:4), and Sarah would have been ten years younger, or about sixty-five years of age. Isaac was not born until approximately twenty-five years after Abraham first received the promise (Gen. 17:17). 10. Wikipedia.org, “Bar and Bat Mitzvah,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wki/Bar_mitzvah (accessed September 4, 200). 11. Massoume Price, “Rituals of Circumcision,” Iran Chamber Society, http://www.iranchamber.com/culture/articles/rituals_of_circumcision.php (accessed November 4, 2008). 12. British Journal of Cancer 19, no. 2 (June 1965): 217–226. 13. H. L. Wilmington, Wilmington’s Guide to the Bible (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1981), 817. 14. Ishmael was born when Abraham was eighty-six years of age (Gen. 16:16). Isaac was born when Abraham was one hundred (Gen. 21:5) and Sarah was ninety (Gen. 17:17). Ishmael was thirteen when he was circumcised by Abraham (Gen. 17:25). Isaac was born one year later (Gen. 17:21). After Isaac was weaned, Abraham made a feast, during which Ishmael mocked Isaac (Gen. 21:8–9). Isaac would have been about two years of age, making Ishmael fifteen to sixteen years of age when he was cast out of the home. 15. The four references are Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 14:2; 26:18; and Psalm 135:4.

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