Genesis 1:27

And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them.

Literal Standard Version

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 says, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.”

28And God blesses them, and God says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth.”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.”

Genesis 5:1This [is] an account of the generations of Adam. In the day of God’s creating man, in the likeness of God He has made him;

Genesis 9:6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.

Psalms 139:14I confess You, because I have been fearfully distinguished. Your works [are] wonderful, || And my soul is knowing [it] well.

Jeremiah 29:6take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and you are not few;

Matthew 19:4And He answering said to them, “Did you not read that He who made [them] from the beginning, made them a male and a 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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