Genesis 1:26-27

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²⁶Then God said, “Let us^(A) make mankind^(B) in our image,^(C) in our likeness,^(D) so that they may rule^(E) over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,^(F) over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷So God created^(G) mankind^(H) in his own image,^(I)
in the image of God^(J) he created them;
male and female^(K) he created them.^(L)

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Footnotes

Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth

Genesis 2:2-3

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²By the seventh day^(A) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.^(B) ³Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,^(C) because on it he rested^(D) from all the work of creating^(E) that he had done.

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Genesis 2:15

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¹⁵The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden^(A) to work it and take care of it.

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Genesis 2:15 in all English translations

Matthew 22:34-39

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The Greatest Commandment^(A)

³⁴Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,^(B) the Pharisees got together. ³⁵One of them, an expert in the law,^(C) tested him with this question: ³⁶“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a]^(D) ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b]^(E)