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.” ²⁹ God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you,^{(F) 30} for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it—I have given^[d] every green plant for food.”^(G) And it was so. ³¹ God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed.^(H) Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Psalm 8

God’s Glory, Human Dignity

For the choir director: on the Gittith.^(A) A psalm of David.

⁴⁷ The first man was from the earth, a man of dust;^(A) the second man is^[a] from heaven. ⁴⁸ Like the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; like the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.^{(B) 49} And just as we have borne the image^(C) of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.^(D)