Passage
Genesis 1.24-26
Book: Genesis · NASB95
Immediate context (±2 verses)
ASV (ASV)
22. And God blessed them, saying, 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, a fifth day.
24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25. And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 26. And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28. And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:22-28, ASV)
WEB (WEB)
22. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23. There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24. God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. 25. God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. 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.”
- 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.” (Genesis 1:22-28, WEB)
KJV (KJV)
22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26. And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. moveth: Heb. creepeth (Genesis 1:22-28, KJV)
YLT (YLT)
22. And God blesseth them, saying, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:' 23. and there is an evening, and there is a morning, day fifth.
24. And God saith, 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so. 25. And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good. 26. And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'
- And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. 28. And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.' (Genesis 1:22-28, YLT)
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Theological reading
Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added.
Key words
Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.
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Arguments and defeaters:
- Animal Sacrifice Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.24-25
- Anthropology Defeats Christianity Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Anthropology vs Epistemology Priority Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from Consciousness, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from Love, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from Neuroscience (Guillen), via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from Origin of Life, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Argument from Reason, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from the Information-Conservation Convergence, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from the Mirror-Recognition Convergence, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from the Naming Convergence, via Genesis 1.26-28
- Argument from the Pre-Given Logos, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from the Question-Asking Asymmetry, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Argument from the Trans-Instinctual Agency Convergence, via Genesis 1.26-28
- Biogenesis Argument, via Genesis 1.11-25, Genesis 1.20-25
- Cambrian Explosion Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Christian God is the Only True God, via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- Christians Behaving Badly Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Common Design vs Common Descent Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Convergent Evolution as Design Signal Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Cosmic Dictator Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Cumulative Case for the Deity of Christ, via Genesis 1.26
- Edge of Evolution Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Elohim Is a Divine Council Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26
- Evil as Privation of Good, via Genesis 1.25
- Hominin Foot and Big Toe Transition Argument, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Interdependency Argument, via Genesis 1.11-25
- Irreducible Complexity Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Miller-Urey Reframe Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Moral Anti-Realism Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Necessary Being is an Intelligent Mind, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Orphan Genes Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25, Genesis 1.24-25, Genesis 1.26-27
- OT Polytheism Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Phylogenetic Incongruence Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- RNA World Failure Argument, via Genesis 1.20-25
- Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Fossils Argument, via Genesis 1.24-25
- Tree of Knowledge Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Unitarian Oneness Binitarian Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26
- Why Doesnt God Stop Satan Objection Defeater, via Genesis 1.26-28
Concepts:
- Adam and Eve Historicity, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Anti-Muslim Polemic Quality-Control, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Biblical Dignity, via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- Black People Shouldnt Be Christian, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Christian Abolitionist Movement, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Christianity in Africa, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Common Descent Critique, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Divine Conservationism, via Genesis 1.24
- Edge of Evolution
- Genesis ANE Myth Borrowing Objection, via Genesis 1.26-28
- Genesis Hermeneutics, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Imago Dei, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Occasionalism, via Genesis 1.24
- Old Testament Witness to the Deity of Christ, via Genesis 1.26
- Oneness Pentecostalism, via Genesis 1.26
- Orphan Genes
- Papal Bulls and Slavery, via Genesis 1.26-27
- PaRDeS, via Genesis 1.26
- Substance Dualism, via Genesis 1.26-27
- Tawhid, via Genesis 1.26
- Theistic Evolution, via Genesis 1.26-27, Genesis 1.26-28
- Trinity, via Genesis 1.26
- Trinity Common Objections, via Genesis 1.26
- Trinity OT Stack (Five Texts), via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- Trinity Plural-Hebrew-Noun Stack, via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- Two Powers in Heaven, via Genesis 1.26
- Verses on Gods Goodness and Human Worth, via Genesis 1.26-27
People:
Lexicon:
- G1504 - eikon, via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- H0120 - adam, via Genesis 1.26-27, Genesis 1.26-31
- H0430 - elohim, via Genesis 1.26
- H1697 - dabar, via Genesis 1.3-31
- H1823 - demuth, via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- H2896 - tov, via Genesis 1.25
- H5315 - nephesh, via Genesis 1.24
- H6213 - asah, via Genesis 1.25, Genesis 1.26
- H6754 - tselem, via Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26-27
- H7307 - ruach, via Genesis 1.26
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Why these four translations
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The four:
- ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.
See Bibles for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.