Let us make man
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καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ᾽ εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ᾽ ὁμοίωσιν· καὶ ἀρχέτωσαν τῶν ἰχθύων τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ πάσης τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῶν ἑρπόντων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
The council-like plural “Let us make” (unique in the chapter — every other command is a divine singular) has drawn commentary since antiquity: a plural of majesty, an address to a heavenly court, or (for Christian readers) a hint of plurality within God. κατ᾽ εἰκόνα, “according to [our] image”, is the phrase behind the entire biblical doctrine of the imago Dei; ἀρχέτωσαν gives humankind dominion over every other creature just named.
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