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Who was Lot in relation to Abraham?
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, oil on wood by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520; in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
In the Hebrew Bible, Lot is identified as the nephew of the patriarch Abraham. Specifically, he is the son of Haran, who was Abrahamās brother.1234