²⁶ Then God said, “Let us^(A) make man^[a] in^[b] our image, according to our likeness.^(B) They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl^[c] on the earth.”^(C)

²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,^(E) and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

Cain Murders Abel

4 The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”^{[a] 2} She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

The Line of Seth

5 This is the document containing the family^[a] records^(A) of Adam.^[b] On the day that God created man,^[c] he made him in the likeness of God; ² he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind.^[d]

³ Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

¹⁶ but whenever a person turns^(A) to the Lord, the veil is removed.^{(B) 17} Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at^[a](C) the glory of the Lord^(D) and are being transformed^(E) into the same image^(F) from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.^[b]

²² But^(A) be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face^[a] in a mirror. ²⁴ For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. ²⁵ But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.^(B)