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26 God said, “Let us make man[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that crawls on the earth.”

27 God created the man in his own image.
In the image of God he created him.
Male and female he created them.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:26 The rendering of the Hebrew word adam is a key issue in this section. Adam may refer to man, mankind, or Adam. This translation retains the article where it occurs with adam (the man) and retains singular or plural forms of verbs and pronouns according to the Hebrew text.

The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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  1. Genesis 2:7 Literally as dust from the ground. This means man is still dust and will return to dust.