have grasped this, but we, with the full plot disclosed, can revisit the passage and see there the clues.7 I have written elsewhere, commenting on Genesis 1:26–27, that “man exists as a duality, the one in relation to the other.… As for God himself … the context points to his own intrinsic relationality. The plural occurs on three occasions in v. 26, yet God is also singular in v. 27. God is placed in parallel with man, made in his image as male and female, who is described both in the singular and