Genesis 1:27

And God created man after hys lycknesse after the lycknesse of god created he him: male and female created he them.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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

26And God sayd: let vs make man in oure symilitude ad after oure lycknesse: that he may have rule over the fysh of the see and over the foules of the ayre and over catell and over all the erth and over all wormes that crepe on the erth.

28And God blessed them and God sayd vnto them. Growe and multiplye and fyll the erth and subdue it and have domynyon over the fysh of the see and over the foules of the ayre and over all the beastes that move on the erth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18And the LORde God sayd: it is not good that man shulde be alone I will make hym an helper to beare him company:

Genesis 5:1Thys is the boke of the generacion of man In the daye when God created man and made hym after the symilytude of god

Genesis 9:6so yt he which shedeth mannes bloude shall haue hys bloud shed by man agayne: for God made man after his awne lycknesse.

Matthew 19:4He answered and sayd vnto them: Have ye not redde how that he which made man at the beginninge made them man and woman

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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