R. David Kasher on Parashat Bereishit: The Grammar of God

The Torah signals to us from the start that words have great power.  A book that opens with an account of a world created through divine speech acts reveals its own interest in the creative possibilities of language.  So we can expect this text to choose its words carefully, deliberately. We might not, however, have expected the extent to which the Torah is willing to manipulate the other features and forms of language in order to communicate ideas.