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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
Genesis 9:6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
Jeremiah 29:6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.
Matthew 19:4Who answering, said to them: Have ye 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 →