26 Then God said, “[a]Let (A)Us make (B)mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and [b]let them (C)rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” 27 So God created man (D)in His own image, in the image of God He created him; (E)male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “(F)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 [c]moves on the earth.” 29 Then God said, “Behold, (G)I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the [d]surface of all the earth, and every tree [e]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30 and (H)to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that [f]moves on the earth [g]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. 31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very (I)good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:26 I.e., indicating united action, not a request
  2. Genesis 1:26 I.e., have them rule
  3. Genesis 1:28 Or crawls
  4. Genesis 1:29 Lit face of
  5. Genesis 1:29 Lit in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed
  6. Genesis 1:30 Or crawls
  7. Genesis 1:30 Lit in which is living breath

16 To the woman He said,

“I will greatly multiply
Your pain [a]in childbirth,
In pain you shall (A)deliver children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And (B)he shall rule over you.”

17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

(C)Cursed is the ground because of you;
(D)With [b]hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
Yet you shall eat the [c]plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You shall eat bread,
Until you (E)return to the ground,
Because (F)from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

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  1. Genesis 3:16 Lit and your pregnancy
  2. Genesis 3:17 Or hardship
  3. Genesis 3:18 Lit plant

15 And I will [a](A)make enemies
Of you and the woman,
And of your [b]offspring and her [c]Descendant;
(B)He shall [d]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise Him on the heel.”

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  1. Genesis 3:15 Lit put enmity between you
  2. Genesis 3:15 Lit seed
  3. Genesis 3:15 Lit Seed; i.e., a prophetic reference to Christ
  4. Genesis 3:15 Or crush

Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also (A)rested from his works, as (B)God did from His.

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