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In the Bible, the number 60 occurs several times, for example as the age of Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born, and the number of warriors escorting King Solomon.
In the laws of kashrut of Judaism, 60 is also the proportion (60:1) of kosher to non-kosher ingredients which can render an admixture kosher post-facto.
In the Koran, the number 60 is mentioned once: "..he should feed sixty indigent ones..", yet 60 is mentioned many times in the Hadith, most notably Muhammad being reported to say, "..Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created Adam in His own image with His length of sixty cubits.."
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