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Genesis 1:26-27 KJV
Genesis · chapter 1 · verses 26–27
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.Genesis 1:26-27 · King James Version
What Genesis 1:26-27 means
Let us is the first strange note, and in our image is the claim everything else rests on. The image is not given to one type of person: male and female created he them, both of them in it. Whatever else the Bible says about people starts here.
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Genesis 1:26-27 in context
24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Commentary
Cross references
- Colossians 3:10
- Ephesians 4:24
- Psalms 8:4-8
- Genesis 3:22
- Genesis 5:1
- Psalms 100:3
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
- Genesis 9:2-4
- Matthew 19:4
- Ephesians 2:10
- Genesis 5:1-2
- Mark 10:6
Key words (Strong's)
- likenessdᵉmûwthresemblanceH1823 →
- dominionrâdâhto tread downH7287 →
- createdbârâʼto createH1254 →
- femalenᵉqêbâhfemaleH5347 →
- imagetselema phantomH6754 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- makeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- fishdâgâh{a fish }H1710 →
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We have here the second part of the sixth day's work, the creation of man, which we are, in a special manner, concerned to take notice of, that we may know ourselves. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 26-28