Genesis 1:25-27

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²⁵And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶Then God said, ^(A)“Let us make man^[a] in our image, ^(B)after our likeness. And ^(C)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²⁷So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
^(D)male and female he created them.

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Footnotes

Genesis 1:26 The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam

Matthew 22:35-40

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³⁵^(A)And one of them, ^(B)a lawyer, asked him a question ^(C)to test him. ³⁶“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷And he said to him, ^(D)“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And ^(E)a second is like it: ^(F)You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰^(G)On these two commandments depend ^(H)all the Law and the Prophets.”