Genesis 1:26
God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.”
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Genesis 3:22Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!”
Genesis 9:2All animals will be very afraid of you—this includes all the birds, all the creatures that run along the ground, and all the fish in the sea. You are in charge of them.
Genesis 11:7We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”
Job 35:10But no one asks, ‘Where is the God my maker, the one who gives songs in the night,
Psalms 8:4What are human beings that you should concern yourself with them? What are people that you should care for them?
Psalms 100:3Know that the Lord is God! He made us, so we belong to him. We are his people, the flock he cares for.
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 →