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Genesis 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

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In The King James Version

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In Context

25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

27And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:22And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--

Genesis 9:2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.

Job 35:10But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,

Psalms 8:4what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

Psalms 100:3Know ye that LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:25-26

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. We have here the first part of the sixth day's work. The sea was, the day before, replenished with its fish, and the air with its fowl; and this day were… Read the whole commentary →

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