Genesis 1:27

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

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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

26Then 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.”

28Then God blessed them, and said to them: “Be fruitful, grow in number, fill the earth and govern it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls on the ground,”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the human to be alone; I will make a helper suited to him.”

Genesis 5:1This is the list of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created human beings, he made them in his own image.

Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds a person’s blood, by people will their blood be shed; for God made people in his own image.

Psalms 139:14I give you praise for my fashioning so full of awe, so wonderful. Your works are wonderful. You knew me right well;

Matthew 19:4“Haven’t you read,” replied Jesus, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and 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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