Genesis 1:27

And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created 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 he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

28And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the lineage of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

Psalms 139:14So then, truly, the just will confess your name, and the upright will dwell with your countenance.

Jeremiah 29:6Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number.

Matthew 19:4And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he 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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