Genesis 1:27

And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

Genesis 9:6Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

Psalms 139:14I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

Jeremiah 29:6Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

Matthew 19:4And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:27-29

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have… Read the whole commentary →

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