"And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot was with him, into the South."
Von Rad called this narrative "fictional";[3] and Simpson asserted that the expression, "Lot was with him is an incorrect gloss, as the absence of the mention of Lot in Genesis 12:9-20 indicates."[4] However, the proof that Lot did in fact accompany Abram to Egypt, in addition to its having been logically and smoothly affirmed in this very verse, appears in what Lot himself "saw" in Genesis 13:10. "He saw that the plain of the lower Jordan was like the land of Egypt." How could Lot have seen that unless he had just been to Egypt with Abram? It is refreshing to find more and more able scholars of the present time who are able to discern such things, as did Meredith G. Kline:
"Though not mentioned in Genesis 12:10-20, Lot had been in Egypt, benefiting from Abram's favored status (Genesis 13:5), and acquiring a taste for luxuriant valleys (cf. Genesis 13:10, like the land of Egypt)."[5]
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