David J. A. Clines seeks to counter this conclusion by contending that the reference to “male and female” in 1:27 implies nothing about equality of the sexes but only indicates that there are two kinds of human being just as other creatures are made “according to their kind.”26 But Richard Hess incisively critiques Clines’s claim: “Clines fails to demonstrate that male and female are ever understood as the kinds (mîn) used of different species in Genesis 1:21 and 24. Nowhere in Genesis is ʾādām