When Isaac was 40, Abraham sent Eliezer, his steward, into Mesopotamia to find a wife for Isaac, from his nephew Bethuel's family.

He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, Dutch financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Orrilia Ortellius, of the famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius.

Abraham's nephew is said to have been the prophet Lot, who was one of the other people who migrated with Abraham out of their community.

Abraham then left his people for good, with his believing nephew Lot and his wife, and all were directed towards the blessed land.

The angels, however, told Abraham to fear not and told him that they had been sent to the people of his nephew.

The commentators further stated that, secondly, the fire referred to the ' fire of persecution ', from which Abraham was saved, as he left his people after this with his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot.

The origin of the term Textus Receptus comes from the publisher's preface to the 1633 edition produced by Bonaventure and his nephew Abraham Elzevir who were partners in a printing business at Leiden.

* Hillel Kook ( 1915-2001 ), nephew of Abraham Isaac Kook, prominent Revisionist Zionism activist during World War II

A traditional Orthodox icon depicts Lot, the nephew of Abraham, watering the trees.

According to Islamic tradition, Lot lived in Ur and was the son of Haran and nephew of Abraham.

According to the Quran, Lot was a prophet and a nephew of Abraham.

Mathen, a nephew of Abraham Malpan also followed his uncle ’ s steps.

He ran the company alongside his nephew Abraham Reichmann.

He is also a nephew by marriage of former U. S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis, a confidante of President Abraham Lincoln.

He was the nephew of congressman and senator Abraham Bedford Venable.

* One is mentioned in Genesis 22: 21 as the nephew of Abraham, son of Nahor, brother of Bethuel ( father of Rebekah ).

The first notable prayer-whose text is recorded-in the Torah and Hebrew Bible occurs when Abraham pleads with God not to destroy the people of Sodom, where his nephew Lot resides.

Citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah wanted to rape Lot, nephew of Abraham.

It was supposedly Perenelle's nephew to whom Nicolas Flamel passed down the knowledge that he had gained from the book of Abraham the Mage ( also known as The Codex ), but when his descendants were later questioned about the inheritance, they seemed to have said they did not have any of the Flamel's books or his knowledge.

* In the Tridentine Roman Breviary the readings from the Genesis, that contain the formal narrative of Abraham begin on Quinquagesima Sunday with the call of Abraham, continue next day with the account of the separation of Abraham from his nephew Lot, and end with the sacrifice of Melchisedech on Shrove Tuesday, a total of three days.

Charles tried to use the delay to sow dissension between the Orangist faction in the Republic that wanted to restore the House of Orange ( represented at the time by Charles's nephew William III of Orange ) to the office of stadtholder and the republican States faction headed by De Witt.

De Zúñiga regarded it as essential that the Sandovals be unable to gain an influence over the future king ; de Zúñiga first began to develop his own influence over Prince Philip, and then introduced his nephew, Olivares, to the prince, then aged ten ; At first, Philip did not particularly take to Olivares.

De Gray's nephew, Walter de Gray, secured the office of Lord Chancellor with his uncle's help in 1205.

He was the son of the statesman Field Marshal Axel von Fersen the Elder and the countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie ( through her relatives to the Royal House of Vasa ), nephew of Eva Ekeblad and grandson of General Hans Reinhold Fersen.

Meanwhile the nephew of Guy, Peter de Vaux de Cernay, arguably a stool-pigeon of De Montfort, his uncle and the papacy, wrote an account of the crusade which many have seen as a transparent piece of propaganda to justify the actions of the crusaders, whose outrages are described consistently as doing the work of God against the heretical agents of the demonic power-while outrages committed by the embattled lords of the Midi are predictably portrayed as the opposite.

His nephew is Aurelio De Laurentiis, also a film producer and the chairman of SSC Napoli football club.

# Maria Sofia De la Gardie ( 1627 – 1694 ), married Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, nephew of regent Axel Oxenstierna.

Great nephew Evarts Boutell Greene was the famed American historian appointed Columbia University's first De Witt Clinton Professor of History 1923 and department chairman from 1926 to 1939.

He was a nephew of Henry De La Warr Flood, who served in the House of Representatives in the U. S. Congress from Appomattox County, Virginia from 1901 to 1921 and Joel West Flood, also of Appomattox County.

They first fly to Oyster Bay, Long Island, to pick up Pam's father, retired CIA operative Jack Byrnes ( De Niro ), her mother Dina ( Danner ) and one-year-old nephew Little Jack.

After one ship was sent to France to ask for additional support, three ships were financed and prepared by the king of France and put under the command of Sieur De Bois le Comte, a nephew of Villegagnon.

De Launay was a nephew of the Bastille governor marquis de Launay, married a woman from the Tukhachevsky noble family, and stayed in Russia.

Her sister-in-law, Muriel De La Warr, and her nephew, Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr, were also involved in the peace movement.

His best-known pupil is his nephew Henri De Braekeleer ( 1840-1888 ).

One pupil of De Heusch in Utrecht was his nephew, Jacob de Heusch.

He was born and died in New York City, the nephew of New York Governor George Clinton ( 1739 – 1812 ), a brother of De Witt Clinton, and son of James Clinton.

De Boigne remained faithful to Daulat Rao Sindhia, the nephew and legitimate heir of Sindhia.

Milosch and the forester of De Stresses would foster Morsinia ( named after Elizabeth Morsiney bride of King Sigismund of Hungary ), the Albanian Heiress of De Stresses, daughter of Musache de Stresses and Mara Cernoviche who were murdered by Amesas Kastriota, the infamous nephew of George Kastriota ( Skanderbeg ).

William West, 1st Baron De La Warr, of the second creation ( c. 1520 – 30 December 1595 ) was nephew and adopted heir of Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr.

In 1572, the heir male and nephew of the co-heirs general was created Baron De la Warr, but not Baron West, by letters patent.

Married to Lady Elizabeth Bonville, but having no children he settled his estates on his nephew William West, 1st Baron De La Warr for his lifetime, but was the victim of an attempted poisoning, for which William was attainted.