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Luther on the Creation: A Critical and Devotional Commentary on Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Martin Luther began this work in 1536 while he lectured at the University of Wittenberg, and finished it in 1545, just a few months before his death. In the first volume, Luther discusses how one should read the books of Moses and what readers should learn from them.

image of God, that is with respect to righteousness, wisdom and salvation, yet she was a woman. For as the sun is more glorious than the moon, though the moon is a most glorious body, so woman, though she was a most beautiful work of God, yet she did not equal the glory of the male creature. However Moses here joins the two sexes together and says that God created them male and female for a further reason that he might thereby signify that Eve also being alike created of God, alike with Adam became
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