²⁶ Then God said, ^(A)“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; ^(B)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over ^[a]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man ^(C)in His own image; in the image of God He created him; ^(D)male and female He created them. ²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ^(E)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and ^(F)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that ^[b]moves on the earth.”

²⁹ And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; ^(G)to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ Also, to ^(H)every beast of the earth, to every ^(I)bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is ^[c]life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.

⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, ^(A)and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves ^[a]coverings.

⁸ And they heard ^(B)the ^[b]sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the ^[c]cool of the day, and Adam and his wife ^(C)hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent: