Genesis 1:26

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²⁶Then 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.”

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Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth

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Genesis 1:27

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²⁷So God created^(A) mankind^(B) in his own image,^(C)
in the image of God^(D) he created them;
male and female^(E) he created them.^(F)

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Genesis 2:7

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

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Footnotes

Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).

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Genesis 5:1

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From Adam to Noah

5 This is the written account^(A) of Adam’s family line.^(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.^(C)

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Genesis 5:2

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²He created them^(A) male and female^(B) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”^[a] when they were created.

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Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam

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Deuteronomy 4:32

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The Lord Is God

³²Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

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