Genesis 1:27

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

Berean Standard Bible

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

26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls 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. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Psalms 139:14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Jeremiah 29:6Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

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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