In His Image

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

God blessed them and said to them,
"Be fruitful and increase in number;
fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air
and over every living creature
that moves on the ground."

Then God said,
"I give you every seed-bearing plant
on the face of the whole earth
and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
And to all the beasts of the earth
and all the birds of the air
and all the creatures that move on the ground --
everything that has the breath of life in it --
I give every green plant for food."
And it was so.

God saw all that He had made,
and it was very good.
And there was evening,
and there was morning --
the sixth day.

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed
in all their vast array.

By the seventh day
God had finished the work He had been doing;
so on the seventh day
He rested from all His work.
And God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy,
because on it He rested
from all the work of creating
that He had done.

(Genesis 1:27-31; 2:1-3)