²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us^(A) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.^(B) They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth,^[a] and the creatures that crawl^[b] 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^[c] 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 food will be 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 every green plant for food.”^(G) And it was so.

⁵ No shrub of the field^(A) had yet grown on the land,^[a] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

⁷ Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground^(A) and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,^(B) and the man became a living being.^(C)

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”^{(A) 19} So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it.^(B) And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man^[a] no helper was found as his complement. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,^(C) and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. ²² Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.^(D)

³ God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested^(A) from His work of creation.^[a](B)