Populate Lookup Lists from Different Site Collection

Hi,
we are using O365 environment
We have 2 Site Collections: Site Collection 1 has Sub sites and has lookup Columns in Lists..
This Subsite is created as a Site Collection 2 in O365 ..In Site Coll Lists we have Lists which has Lookup columns referring to Site Coll 1
How do I bring the content over to Site coll 2 with Lookup columns without having the Lists moved from Site Coll1
Thanks

This can't be done out of the box. It would require a custom solution or a 3rd party plugin (not sure if one exists or not).
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