Genesis 1:26 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And he said: "Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. [Ps. 104:30; Heb. 1:2; 11:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And 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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image to resemble us so that they may take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling things on earth.”

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26 Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor."

Genesis 2:19

Therefore, the Lord God, having formed from the soil all the animals of the earth and all the flying creatures of the air, brought them to Adam, in order to see what he would call them. For whatever Adam would call any living creature, that would be its name.

Genesis 3:22

And he said: "Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Therefore, now perhaps he may put forth his hand and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live in eternity."

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the lineage of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

Job 35:10

Yet he has not said: "Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,

Job 39:11

Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?

Job 5:23

For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.

Psalm 100:3

I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them, and let the sons of Zion exult in their king.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

which my soul still seeks and has not found. One man among a thousand, I have found; a woman among them all, I have not found.

Song of Solomon 1:11

Bride to Groom: Reveal to me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture, where you recline at midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of your companions.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, the very Molder of it. He did not create it to no purpose. He formed it so that it would be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 6:8

And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send?" and, "Who will go for us?" And I said: "Here I am. Send me."

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

Jeremiah 27:6

And now, therefore, I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant. Moreover, I have given to him also the beasts of the field, so that they may serve him.

John 14:23

Jesus responded and said to him: "If anyone loves me, he shall keep my word. And my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our dwelling place with him.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, "Even now, my Father is working, and I am working."

Acts 17:20

For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean."

Acts 17:26

And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,

1 Corinthians 11:7

Certainly, a man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man.

2 Corinthians 3:18

Yet truly, all of us, as we gaze upon the unveiled glory of the face of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image, from one glory to another. And this is done by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:4

As for them, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine in them.

Ephesians 4:24

and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

Colossians 1:15

He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.

Colossians 3:10

and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him,

James 3:7

For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

James 3:9

By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God.

1 John 5:7

For there are Three who give testimony in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. And these Three are One.