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Lot (According to the Book)

according to the Book of Genesis, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham, by whom he was brought up. He afterward settled at Sodom, where he was taken prisoner by the King of Edom, but rescued by Abraham. When Sodom was about to be destroyed, two angels came to Lot and obliged him to quit the place with his wife and daughters, when the former, for looking back, was turned he became the father of two sons, named Moab and Ammon, from whom sprung the Moabites and Ammonites.