Abraham Was Fifty-Two When He Left Haran

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 66:5

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"And the souls that they had made in Haran" (Genesis 12:5). It is a received tradition that at that time Abraham was fifty-two years old. And when you examine it, from "and the souls" until the giving of the Torah there were four hundred and forty-eight [448] years.

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