Genesis 1:26
God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
Genesis 9:2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
Genesis 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
Psalms 8:4what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
Psalms 100:3Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and 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 →