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In Genesis, what did God do?

Here's a cool way to find out. Go to IBM's Many Eyes project and load in the data set for Genesis. Search 'God.' Change the right drop down to Frequency Order. Now you see an ordered list of what God did.

And that shows that God said, a lot. The characters of Genesis also talked about God, a lot. God made, not so much. Not until the 8th most frequent occurance of God did any making get done.

In visualization, Genesis is basically a lot of introduction, not a lot of plot. Sure, tons happens. But it all happens without the characters doing it, even God.

Abraham's most popular verb is said. Adam had. Eve only gets 2 references: "...and she became pregnant and gave birth to cain." and "...because she was the mother of all the living." Noah? He gets a comma and was. He also did all that and entered the ark, which gets him a leg up. Isaac was and said. Jacob said and replied. Joseph said and was.

Gender? 621 instances of he, 141 of she; 548 instances of his, 0 of hers.

Of course, these words come from humans, in translation.

This has been my Lazarus post. Things will now resume to an erratic pace.