Genesis 1:26
After that he said, “We will make people like us. They will be boss for all the animals, and for all the fish and for all the winged creatures and for the ones that go on the ground.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
25He made them all. When he looked at it he said “Good.”
27God made a man like him. He made a man and a woman.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22Then he said, “The man didn't listen to me, he already ate from the tree that makes knowledgeable. He is now like us, he knows/understands about good and bad. He might eat from that other tree, from the one that keeps alive. After that he will live always, he will stay without death. I will prevent him lest he eat.”
Genesis 9:2You will be boss for all the animals. They will be afraid of you.
Genesis 11:7Lest they do that I will confuse their language. They will talk different languages. Then they will not understand each other.”
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 →