Genesis 1:26

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 bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast—and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

25And God made the wild-beast of the land after its kind, and the tame-beast after its kind, and every creeping thing of the ground, after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

27And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him,—Male and female, created he, them.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:22Then said Yahweh God—Lo! man, hath become like one of us, in respect of knowing good and evil,—Now, therefore, lest he thrust forth his hand, and take even of the tree of life, and eat, and live to times age-abiding,—

Genesis 9:2and let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every living creature of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens,—over everything that moveth along on the ground, and over all the fishes of the sea,—into your hand, have they been given.

Genesis 11:7Come on! let us go down, and there confuse their speech,—that they may not understand, each man the speech of his friend.

Job 35:10But none saith—Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

Psalms 8:4What was weak man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? or the son of the earthborn, that thou shouldst set him in charge?

Psalms 100:3Know that, Yahweh, he, is God,—He, made us, and not, we ourselves, His people, and the flock 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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