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What was the relationship between Abraham and Lot?

Lot was Abraham’s nephew and traveled with him to Canaan. When some kings carried him off, Abraham rescued him. Genesis 12:5; Genesis 14:12-16

What the Bible says

Genesis 12:5

And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

Genesis 13:8

Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

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When God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out. Genesis 19:29

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