Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
27And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And God said, Behold, Adam is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live forever—
Genesis 9:2And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea, I have placed them under your power.
Genesis 11:7Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
Job 35:10But none said, Where is God that made me, 1 Who appoints the night watches; 1
Psalms 8:4For I will regard the heavens, the work of thy fingers; 1 The moon and stars, which thou hast established. 1
Psalms 100:3I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; 1 I have hated transgressors. 1
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 →