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25 God made each kind of the earth’s animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing.[a] And God saw how good it was.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us.[b] Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly,[c] the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!”

27 So God created mankind in his own image;
    in his own image God created them;[d]
        he created them male and female.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:25 Lit. thing of the earth
  2. Genesis 1:26 Lit. image, according to our likeness
  3. Genesis 1:26 Lit. birds of the sky; and so through 2:25
  4. Genesis 1:27 Lit. him

25 God made the wild animals(A) according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.(B) And God saw that it was good.(C)

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

27 So God created(J) mankind(K) in his own image,(L)
    in the image of God(M) he created them;
    male and female(N) he created them.(O)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth