“Come, let us go down and confuse their language.” So also Isaiah 6:8 records the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” Does all this indicate that God is a compound unity? The response of the rabbis, as far back as the Talmud (b. Sanhedrin 38b), has been to point out that whenever the plural form is used, it is immediately followed by the singular. So the Scriptures often use a plural noun for God (like ʾelohim) with a singular verb (like baraʾ, “God created” in Gen. 1:1), or,