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

³¹ God saw all that he had made,^(A) and it was very good.^(B) And there was evening, and there was morning^(C)—the sixth day.

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.^(D)

² By the seventh day^(E) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.^{(F) 3} Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,^(G) because on it he rested^(H) from all the work of creating^(I) that he had done.