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Line 2: − == Life==+ − === Birth === − He was born in the eleventh year of Abraham's sojourn in [[Canaan (land)|Canaan]]. His birth mother, [[Hagar]], had joined Abraham's camp during Abraham's brief stay in [[Egypt]]. [[Sarah]], despairing of having a child of her own, asked Hagar to act as her surrogate. The [[Bible]] states that Abraham was 86 years old when Ishmael was born.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=16|verses=15-16}}</ref> − − The dispute on the year of Ishmael's birth follows from the more fundamental [[Biblical chronology dispute#The Birth of Abraham|dispute]] concerning the year of the birth of Abraham. − − === Expulsion === − When he was thirteen years old, he underwent the ceremony of [[circumcision]], as part of Abraham's own covenant with [[God]].<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=17|verses=26}}</ref> Then, within a year, a true miracle occurred: [[Isaac]] was born to Abraham and Sarah.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=21|verses=2}}</ref> Thus Ishmael's position in the household was compromised. Ishmael arguably made his position untenable by openly mocking Isaac during the ceremony of Isaac's weaning, when Isaac was five years old and Ishmael nineteen. Sarah was much displeased, and Abraham, following further instruction from God, expelled Ishmael and Hagar from his camp.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=21|verses=12-14}}</ref> − − The two exiles had between them a loaf of bread and a bottle of water. In the then wilderness region of [[Beersheba]], the water gave out. Hagar placed Ishmael a bowshot away from her, because she did not want to watch him die. But the pre-incarnate [[Jesus Christ]] visited her, assured her that they would both live, and even provided water from a miraculous well. − − Thus they crossed the desert. Eventually Ishmael became an archer and married an Egyptian woman and had twelve sons.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=21|verses=15-21}}</ref>
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[[Ishmael]] ([[Hebrew]] '''יִשְׁמָעֵאל''', ''Yišmāʿêl''; [[Arabic]]: '''إسماعيل''', ''Ismā'īl''; "God will hear") (2094 AM–2231 AM, or 1910 BC-1774 BC) was the first, but illegitimate, son of [[Abraham]], credited to [[Sarah]] but actually born to [[Hagar]]. He is the progenitor of many [[Arab]] tribes. [[Islam]]ic tradition holds that he is the direct ancestor of [[Muhammad]] and also that he, not [[Isaac]], was the son that Abraham nearly sacrificed on [[Mount Moriah]].
[[Ishmael]] ([[Hebrew]] '''יִשְׁמָעֵאל''', ''Yišmāʿêl''; [[Arabic]]: '''إسماعيل''', ''Ismā'īl''; "God will hear") (2094 AM–2231 AM, or 1910 BC-1774 BC) was the first, but illegitimate, son of [[Abraham]], credited to [[Sarah]] but actually born to [[Hagar]]. He is the progenitor of many [[Arab]] tribes. [[Islam]]ic tradition holds that he is the direct ancestor of [[Muhammad]] and also that he, not [[Isaac]], was the son that Abraham nearly sacrificed on [[Mount Moriah]].
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== Descendants and Death ==
== Descendants and Death ==