Genesis 1:26
Good News Translation
Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."

New Revised Standard Version
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

Contemporary English Version
God said, "Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures."

New American Bible
Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Let us.

Genesis 3:22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Genesis 11:7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Job 35:10 And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

John 5:17 But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.

1 John 5:7 And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.

man.

in our.

Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Acts 17:26,28,29 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Ephesians 4:24 And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Colossians 3:10 And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

James 3:9 By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God.

have dominion.

Genesis 9:2,3,4 And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. . . .

Job 5:23 But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.

Psalm 8:4-8 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? . . .

Psalm 104:20-24 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about: . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Jeremiah 27:6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him.

Acts 17:20,28,29 For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:24 And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

Colossians 3:10 And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

Hebrews 2:6-9 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him? . . .

James 3:7,9 For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man. . . .

Context
The Sixth Day
25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.27And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:7
The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

Colossians 3:10
And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

James 3:9
By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God.

Genesis 2:19
And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.

Genesis 3:22
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Genesis 11:7
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Psalm 8:5
Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

Psalm 8:6
And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Genesis 1:25
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