Genesis 1:27

Genesis 1:27

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

a. NLT: So God created human beings, in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. [Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.]

b. ASV: And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.]

c. YLT: And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. [The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.]

d. Classic Amplified: So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation]

e. Septuagint: And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings: So God created Man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. [The Artscroll Series/Stone Edition, THE TANACH--STUDENT SIZE EDITION Copyright 1996, 1998 by Mesorah Publications, Ldt.]

1. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him…”

a. [So] God [Strong: 430 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.]

b. created [Strong: 1254 bara' baw-raw' a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes):-- choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).]

c. [Strong: 853 'eth ayth apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely):--(as such unrepresented in English).]

d. man [Strong: 120 'adam aw-dawm' from 119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):--X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.]

e. [in his own] image [Strong: 6754 tselem tseh'-lem from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:--image, vain shew.] [Gesenius:  image images (of tumours, mice, heathen gods) image, likeness (of resemblance) mere, empty, image, semblance (fig.)]

f. [in the] image [Strong: 6754 tselem tseh'-lem from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:--image, vain shew.] [Gesenius:  image images (of tumours, mice, heathen gods) image, likeness (of resemblance) mere, empty, image, semblance (fig.)]

g. [of]  God [Strong: 430 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.]

h. created [he] [Strong: 1254 bara' baw-raw' a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes):-- choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).]

i. him [Strong: 853 'eth ayth apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely):--(as such unrepresented in English).]

2. “…male and female created he them.”

a. male [Strong: 2145 zakar zaw-kawr' from 2142; properly, remembered, i.e.: a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex):--X him, male, man(child, -kind).] [Gesenius:  male (of humans and animals)]

b. [and] female [Strong:5347 nqebah nek-ay-baw' from 5344; female (from the sexual form):--female.] [Gesenius: female woman, female child, female animal.] 

1). Male and female were both created in the species of “man”. The Scriptures establishes that woman is the image of God just as much as the man.

a). Genesis 5:1, 2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

 2). There are two passages giving information about Creation, but they do not conflict. The final authority in all this is Scripture itself.  Jesus quoted from both so called creation passages and considered them as one event, by saying “he that made them at the beginning”.

a). Matthew 19:4-6 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.