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What gender is god?

What does the Bible say?

“Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?”
– Numbers 11:12, English Standard Version

“You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.”
– Deuteronomy 32:18, English Standard Version

“I have kept silent from ages past; I have been quiet and restrained myself. But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,
gasping breathlessly.”
-- Isaiah 42:14 Christian Standard Bible

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.”
-- Isaiah 49:15 Christian Standard Bible

“As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
-- Isaiah 66:13 Christian Standard Bible

“I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.”
– Hosea 13:8 King James Version

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”
– Matthew 23:37 King James Version
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SparkleLeaf · 51-55, T
I think some people are taking this too literally and too seriously. I just thought it would be fun to find scriptures that in their present form indicate Yahweh, the god if Israel, identified as female at least part of the time. Of course, in reality, the Israelites weren't always monotheistic, and not every time "god" is mentioned in scripture does it refer to Yahweh. In some myths Asherah is his mother and in others she is his wife. Those passages make more sense if you consider them to be about Asherah, rather than Yahweh. Other passages just make more sense if there is more than one god. The story about Baalam in the Book of Numbers makes more sense if there are two gods talking to him, rather than one god who keeps changing his mind. Also consider Psalm 82:1 (KJV): "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods."