What does Genesis 1:27 mean?
On the sixth day of creation, God makes human beings, and this verse repeats the word "created" three times for emphasis. People are made "in his own image," which sets them apart from the rest of creation. Being made in God's image means humans reflect something of God's nature: they can think, love, create, choose, and relate to him, and they are given responsibility to care for the earth on his behalf. The verse also says "male and female created he them," so men and women equally bear God's image. This is why the Bible treats every human life, of every background, as precious and worthy of dignity.
Genesis 1:27 in the King James Version
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Context
26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. 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.”
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What does Genesis 1:27 mean?
On the sixth day of creation, God makes human beings, and this verse repeats the word "created" three times for emphasis. People are made "in his own image," which sets them apart from the rest of creation. Being made in God's image means humans reflect something of God's nature: they can think, love, create, choose, and relate to him, and they are given responsibility to care for the earth on his behalf. The verse also says "male and female created he them," so men and women equally bear God's image. This is why the Bible treats every human life, of every background, as precious and worthy of dignity.
What does Genesis 1:27 say in the KJV?
Genesis 1:27 (KJV) reads: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”