The first-person plural “our” is a
form of address used by the god heading a council of divinities (e.g., Isa
6:8; Gen 3:22; 11:7; for the picture involved, see 1 Kgs 22:19-23). (Mark S.
Smith, “Genesis,” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First
Century, ed. John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, and Donal
Senior [3d ed.; London: T&T Clark, 2022], 206)
