²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them ·rule [^Thave dominion] over the fish in the sea and the birds in the ·sky [heavens], over the ·tame animals [beasts; livestock], over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth.”

²⁷ So God created [1:1] ·human beings [^Tman; ^Cthe Hebrew adam can mean human beings, humankind, person, man, or the proper name Adam] in his image [^Creflecting God’s nature/character and representing him in the world]. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.