²⁶ Then God said, “Let us^(A) make mankind^(B) in our image,^(C) in our likeness,^(D) so that they may rule^(E) over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,^(F) over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.^(A)

² By the seventh day^(B) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.^(C)