I know it’s a bit late, but in answer to your question for proof-text, I was racking my brain— I know it from a lecture on Jewish philosophers, in this case, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Maimonedes, RaMbaM [his Jewish acronym.] But I heard it in seminary 9 years ago. So I knew that wouldn’t satisfy the root of your question (text.)
But, as divine providence guides us, in another FR post I was drawn back to a site hosting lectures on Judaism called simpletoremember.com. One of the lecturers, Lawrence Keleman, has a class on an unrelated topic (the proof of Jewish Oral tradition...) but in the first 13 minutes of it he builds up to and answers the question, from scripture, of where in the Torah we know that Nurture (particularly Divine nurturing through the commandments) can overcome Nature-— Genesis 1:1.... take a listen. As a grammatical guide, when he says “Bereishis” [the first word in the Hebrew Torah] is in construct state, he means that the Bi [prefix for “in”] is connected to reishis... “reishis” [”beginning of_”] in and of itself is the form of the word ree-shone [first] that needs, grammatically, to be adjunct to another word, ie: “beginning of_”time; “beginning of_”days; “beginning of_”our story. To say bireishis.... [bara— He created] leaves out an object of the construct state “beginning of.” Thus rendering it, literally: In the beginning of [missing object] G-d created. I know this is clumsy so see if Rabbi Keleman states it more clearly. He’s also pretty entertaining in a So Cal kind of way...
http://www.simpletoremember.com/media/a/Rational_Approach_Divinity_Oral_Tradition-B/
Thank you, most interesting!