Genesis 1:27

So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female.

Translation for Translators

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, “Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the ◄livestock/domestic animals►, and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground.”

28God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him.”

Genesis 5:1Here is a list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he caused them to be like him in many ways.

Genesis 9:6I made people to be like myself in many ways. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, because he killed someone who is like me.

Psalms 139:14I praise you because you made my body in a very awesome and wonderful way. Everything that you do is amazing! I know that very well.

Jeremiah 29:6Get married and have children. Then when they grow up, choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they also may have children. In that way, the number of you people will increase, not decrease.

Matthew 19:4Jesus said to them, “ Because you have read [RHQ] the Scriptures, you should know that at the time God first created people, ‘he made one man, and he made one woman to be that man’s wife.’

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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