26. God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27. God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

28. God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29. God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

30. To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

16. The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

17. but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."

18. The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him."

19. Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

20. The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

21. The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

22. The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

23. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

24. Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

25. The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.