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In the Bible , Lot ('''לוֹט''' "Hidden, covered", Standard Hebrew Lot, Tiberian Hebrew '''Loṭ'''; Qur’anic Arabic '''لوط''' ''' Lūṭ ''') was the Nephew of the patriarch, Abraham or Abram. He was the son of Abraham's brother Haran . (Gen. 11:27) LOT IN THE HEBREW BIBLE The story of Lot is told in the Book Of Genesis . Lot is mentioned in chapters 11-14 and 19. Lot followed his uncle from , since the land there was well watered. (Gen. 13:10-12). About eight years after this separation, Chedorlaomer and his allies attacked the kings the Sodom and the neighbouring cities, pillaged Sodom, and took many captives, including Lot. Abraham armed his servants, pursued the confederate kings, and overtook them near the springs of Jordan. He recovered the spoil they had taken and brought back Lot with the other captives. Abraham was offered a reward by the King of Sodom, but refused even a shoelace. In Gen. 19, when God decided to overturn and destroy the five cities of the plain, he sent angels to rescue Lot and his family. The men of Sodom seek to Rape (in some translations, they only wish to meet them) the angels (19:5). Lot offers the men his virgin daughters instead (19:8), but the men are not interested. When the sins of the Sodomites and of the neighbouring cities had called down the vengeance of God to punish and destroy them, two angels (presumed to be Michael and Gabriel ) were sent to Sodom to forewarn Lot of the dreadful catastrophe about to happen. The angels took Lot, his wife, and his daughters by hand and drew them forcibly out of their house, saying, "Save yourselves with all haste. Look not behind you. Get as fast as you are able to the mountain, unless you be involved in the calamity of the city." Lot entreated the angels, who consented that he might retire to Zoar , which was one of the five doomed cities. His wife, looking back on Sodom, was turned into a pillar of salt. Lot left Zoar and retired with his two daughters to a cave in an adjacent mountain. In Gen. 19:30-38, Lot's daughters incorrectly believed they were the only females to have survived the devastation. They assumed it was their responsibility to bear children and enable the continuation of the human race. On two subsequent nights, they got their father drunk enough to sleep with them, and they became pregnant. The first son was named Moav (Hebrew, lit., "from the father" {Link without Title} ). He was the patriarch of the nation known as Moab . The second son was named Amon (Hebrew, lit., "from our nation"). He became the patriarch of the nation of Amon. LOT'S WIFE AND THE PILLAR OF SALT Several questions are proposed concerning Lot's wife being changed into a pillar of salt. Some suggest that being surprised and suffocated with fire and smoke, she remained in place, as immovable as a rock of salt. Others say that a column or monument of salt stone was erected on her grave, or that she was stifled in the flame and became a monument of salt to posterity; that is, a permanent and durable monument of her impudence Finally, a literal interpretation is that she was suddenly petrified and changed into a statue of rock salt, which is a soft rock or a Halite . The alleged name of Lot's wife is Edith. MIDRASH Jewish Midrash records a number of additional stories about Lot, not present in the Tanach. These include:
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