There are many Bible scholars in this world who believe in the JEDP theory when the Old Testament should be considered as a literary whole. JEDP theorists believe that the Old Testament was compiled from four different sources; the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist and Priestly sources. There are many passages in the Bible that can confirm the JEDP theory, but if examined closely one could see the similarities in the passages that are supposed to have been written at different times by different groups of people. Believers of the JEDP theory assume that Genesis 12:1-9 was written from the J source or the Yahwists, and Genesis 22:1-19 was written from the E source or the Elohists, with some J material interwoven. When looked at more closely, the reader can see that these two passages actually have similarities that would suggest that the Old Testament should be viewed as a literary whole rather than as four different documents strung together. Looking at the linguistic similarities and themes, both of these texts are connected and parallel to each other in many ways. The first connection is probably the most easily visible to the general reader and is the use of language in both texts. In Genesis 12:1 according to the Fox translation it says: "YHWH said to Avram: Go from your land..." and similarly in Genesis 22:2 God says: "...and go to the land of Moriyya/See. " In both cases, when God speaks to Abraham, who is later renamed Avraham, God uses the term “go ahead.” If these two sections of the Bible were actually written by different sources at different times, then how come the same words are used? The answer is that they were not written by different sources, but the reason why the same language is used for both is because it is a single source. If it had been written from two different sources they would most likely have used different words to go on, such as travel, travel, or move. The fact that the Old Testament source chose to use the word “go forward” for both of these passages means that there had to be a connection between the two especially since it is God who speaks these words in both situations. In addition to the obvious linguistic connection, there are also many thematic connections that would link the two pieces to the same source.