Genesis 1:16-27

The Creation of the World

16 And God k made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to l rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

20 And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds 1 fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." 21 So m God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, n "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds - livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, o "Let us make man 2 in our image, p after our likeness. And q let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
r male and female he created them.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:19
    And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
    Psalms 136:7 - 9
    To him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:35
    Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the Lord of hosts is his name:
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 104:25 - 26
    Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 8:17
    Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
    Genesis 9:1
    And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 3:22
    Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever -
    Genesis 11:7
    Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
    Isaiah 6:8
    And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 5:1
    This is the book of the generations of Adam. Wh...
    Genesis 9:6
    Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall hi...
    1 Corinthians 11:7
    For a man ought not to cover his head, since he...
    Ephesians 4:24
    And to put on the new self, created after the l...
    Colossians 3:10
    And have put on the new self, which is being re...
    James 3:9
    With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with ...
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 9:2
    The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.
    Psalms 8:6 - 8
    You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.
    James 3:7
    For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 2:18
    Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that th...
    Genesis 2:21 - 23
    So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upo...
    Genesis 5:2
    Male and female he created them, and he blessed...
    Malachi 2:15
    Did he not make them one, with a portion of the...
    Matthew 19:4
    He answered, "Have you not read that he who cre...
    Mark 10:6
    But from the beginning of creation, 'God made t...
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