Genesis 1:27

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

Young's Literal Translation

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 saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper — as his counterpart.'

Genesis 5:1This [is] an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

Genesis 9:6whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

Psalms 139:14I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.

Jeremiah 29:6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

Matthew 19:4And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made [them], from the beginning a male and a female made them,

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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