Genesis 1:16–27

16 God made two great lights—the greater lightr to governs the day and the lesser light to governt the night.u He also made the stars.v 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night,w and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.x 19 And there was evening, and there was morningy—the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures,z and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”a 21 So God createdb the great creatures of the seac and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it,d according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.e And God saw that it was good.f 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”g 23 And there was evening, and there was morningh—the fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creaturesi according to their kinds:j the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.k 25 God made the wild animalsl according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.m And God saw that it was good.n

26 Then God said, “Let uso make mankindp in our image,q in our likeness,r so that they may rules over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,t over the livestock and all the wild animals,a and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God createdu mankindv in his own image,w

in the image of Godx he created them;

male and femaley he created them.z

r	Dt 17:3 Job 31:26 Je 43:13 Eze 8:16
s	Ps 136:8
t	Ps 136:9
u	Job 38:33 Ps 74:16 Ps 104:19 Je 31:35 Jas 1:17
v	Dt 4:19 Job 9:9 Job 38:7 Job 38:31–32 Ps 8:3 Ps 33:6 Ec 12:2 Is 40:26 Je 8:2 Am 5:8
w	Je 33:20 Je 33:25
x	Ge 1:4
y	Ge 1:5
z	Ps 146:6
a	Ge 2:19
b	Ge 1:1
c	Job 3:8 Job 7:12 Ps 74:13 Ps 148:7 Is 27:1 Eze 32:2
d	Ps 104:25–26
e	Ge 1:11
f	Ge 1:4
g	Ge 1:28 Ge 8:17 Ge 9:1 Ge 9:7 Ge 9:19 Ge 47:27 Le 26:9 Eze 36:11
h	Ge 1:5
i	Ge 2:19
j	Ge 1:11
k	Ge 1:7
l	Ge 7:21–22 Je 27:5
m	Ge 1:11
n	Ge 1:4
o	Ge 3:5 Ge 3:22 Ge 11:7 Ps 100:3 Is 6:8
p	Is 45:18
q	Ge 1:27 Ge 5:3 Ge 9:6 Ps 8:5 Ps 82:6 Ps 89:6 1 Co 11:7 2 Co 4:4 Col 1:15 Col 3:10 Jas 3:9
r	Ac 17:28–29
s	Ge 9:2 Ps 8:6–8
t	Ps 8:8
a	Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth
u	Ge 1:1
v	Ge 2:7 Ps 103:14 Ps 119:73
w	Ge 1:26
x	Ge 5:1
y	Ge 5:2 Mt 19:4 Mk 10:6 Ga 3:28
z	Dt 4:32