Genesis 1:26

26 Then God said, "Let 1Us make 2man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them 3rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [a]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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Genesis 1:26 In-Context

24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind "; and it was so.
25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

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Cross References 3

  • 1. Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:7
  • 2. Genesis 5:1; Genesis 9:6; 1 Corinthians 11:7; Ephesians 4:24; James 3:9
  • 3. Psalms 8:6-8

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