See, I really don't think this is the point.
We often lump all of the Abrahamic religions together, but pre-Christian Judaism wasn't a modern religion. It was the contemporary to ancient Greek, Egyptian and Norse religions and share the same basic tenets, including deities who act unreasonably toward their followers and an overt connection between natural acts and supernatural forces. Like its contemporaries, the religion as initially designed was meant as a mythological backdrop to explain and justify ceremonial rites and the social standing of the priest class. As with all indigenous faith systems, there is a clear separation between the mythology and the practice of religion and, prior to Jesus of Nazareth, the words themselves don't hold ritual value except where explicitly being denoted as the word of God (like the ten commandments).