Genesis 1:26 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁶ And Elohim 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 all the creeping creatures that creep 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.”

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."

Genesis 1:26 Cross References

Genesis 11:7

“Come, let Us go there and confuse their language, so that they do not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 2:19

And from the ground יהוה  Elohim formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 3:22

And יהוה  Elohim said, “See, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the genealogy of Aḏ

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood is shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man.

Job 35:10

And no one says, ‘Where is Eloah my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Job 39:11

Would you rely on his great strength? Or would you leave your labour to him?

Job 5:23

For your covenant is with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

Psalm 100:3

Know that יהוה, He is Elohim; He has made us, and we are His – His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 149:2

Let Yisra’ĕ

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Truly, this only I have found: that Elohim made man straight, but they have sought out many devices.”

Song of Solomon 1:11

Let us make you ornaments of gold with studs of silver.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus said יהוה, Creator of the heavens, He is Elohim, Former of earth and its Maker, He established it, He did not create it to be empty, He formed it to be inhabited: “I am יהוה, and there is none else.

Isaiah 6:8

And I heard the voice of יהוה, saying, “Whom do I send, and who would go for Us?” And I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.

Jeremiah 27:6

‘And now, I have given all these lands into the hand of Neḇ

John 14:23

יהושע  answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him.

John 5:17

But יהושע  answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work.”

Acts 17:20

“For you are bringing some strange matters to our ears. We wish, then, to know what these mean.”

Acts 17:26

“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having ordained beforehand the times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man indeed should not cover his head, since he is the likeness and esteem of Elohim, but woman is the esteem of man.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, as with unveiled face we see as in a mirror the esteem of יהוה, are being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to esteem, as from יהוה, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the mighty one of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the Good News of the esteem of Messiah, who is the likeness of Elohim, does not shine on them.

Ephesians 4:24

and that you put on the renewed man which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth.

Colossians 1:15

who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim, the first-born of all creation.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new one who is renewed in knowledge according to the likeness of Him who created him,

James 3:7

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

James 3:9

With it we bless our Elohim and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of Elohim.

1 John 5:7

Because there are three who bear witness: