Genesis 1:26-28

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26} Then God said, “Let Us^(A) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.^(B) They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth,^(a) and the creatures that crawl^(b) on the earth.”^(C)

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So God created man in His own image;
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.^(D)

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28} God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,^(E) and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls^(c) on the earth.”

Footnotes:

a. Genesis 1:26: Syr reads sky, and over every animal of the land

b. Genesis 1:26: Lit scurry

c. Genesis 1:28: Lit and all scurrying animals that scurry

Cross references:

A. Genesis 1:26: Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:7

B. Genesis 1:26: Genesis 5:1; Genesis 5:3; Genesis 9:6; Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 11:7; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 1:15

C. Genesis 1:26: Genesis 9:2; Psalm 8:6-8

D. Genesis 1:27: Genesis 5:2; Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6

E. Genesis 1:28: Genesis 9:1; Genesis 9:7