According to the English Ishei Hatanach, Encyclopedia of Biblical Personalities, compiled by Yishai Chasidah, published by Shaar Press: "At the time of the Dispersion (Haflagah), Abraham was forty-eight (Seder Olam 1)." (page 18)
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