Lot is a figure in the Hebrew Bible, a nephew of the patriarch Abraham, and a key figure in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Genesis he travels with Abraham’s household from Ur toward Canaan and later settles in Sodom after separating from Abraham. In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19, he shows hospitality to two angels disguised as men. The townsmen of Sodom demand that Lot send out the two men so that they can sexually assault them; Lot refuses, and the angels instruct him and his family to flee the town prior to its divine destruction.
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