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Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humans who are images of us, who are like us. Let them rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the reptiles that crawl upon the ground.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

25So God made all the different kinds of wild beasts, and the cattle, and everything that crawls upon the ground. God saw that it was good.

27So God created humans in his image, he created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:22Then the Lord God said: “The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not reach out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”

Genesis 9:2Every wild beast and bird and everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea will fear and dread you; into your hand they are given.

Genesis 11:7Come, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that they do not understand each other’s speech.”

Psalms 8:4what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

Psalms 100:3Be sure that the Lord alone is God. It is he who has made us, and his we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

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 →

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