Verse 26
Genesis 1:26
World English Bible, British Edition
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God (Elohim) said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. 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 creeps on the earth.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּ/צַלְמֵ֖/נוּ כִּ/דְמוּתֵ֑/נוּ וְ/יִרְדּוּ֩ בִ/דְגַ֨ת הַ/יָּ֜ם וּ/בְ/ע֣וֹף הַ/שָּׁמַ֗יִם וּ/בַ/בְּהֵמָה֙ וּ/בְ/כָל הָ/אָ֔רֶץ וּ/בְ/כָל הָ/רֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽ/רֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל הָ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
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Chapter 1 Context
1
In the beginning, God (Elohim) created the heavens and the
earth.
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2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep
and God (Elohim)’s Spirit...
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3
God (Elohim) said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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4
God (Elohim) saw the light, and saw that it was good. God (Elohim) divided the light from
the darkne...
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5
God (Elohim) called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There
was evening and there...
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6
God (Elohim) said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters,
and let it divide the water...
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7
God (Elohim) made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse
from the waters w...
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8
God (Elohim) called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning,
a second day.
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9
God (Elohim) said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to
one place, and let the dry...
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10
God (Elohim) called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters
he called “seas”....
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11
God (Elohim) said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit
trees bearing fruit a...
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12
The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees
bearing fruit, with their s...
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13
There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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14
God (Elohim) said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide
the day from the night;...
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15
and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on
the earth;” and it was so.
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16
God (Elohim) made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and
the lesser light to r...
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17
God (Elohim) set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
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18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness. God (Elohim)...
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19
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
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20
God (Elohim) said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let
birds fly above the earth i...
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21
God (Elohim) created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves,
with which the wa...
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22
God (Elohim) blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters
in the seas, and...
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23
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
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24
God (Elohim) said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their
kind, livestock, creeping thi...
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25
God (Elohim) made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock
after their kind, and...
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26
God (Elohim) said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let
them have dominion over the...
27
God (Elohim) created man in his own image. In God (Elohim)’s image he created him; male
and female h...
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28
God (Elohim) blessed them. God (Elohim) said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the
earth, and su...
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29
God (Elohim) said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of al...
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30
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything
that creeps on the ear...
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31
God (Elohim) saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. There was evening and t...
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