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καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, κατ᾽ εἰκόνα θεοῦ ἐποίησεν αὐτόν· ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς.
The threefold repetition of ἐποίησεν, “he made”, hammers the point: humankind, both man and woman together, bears the divine image — a striking equality of the sexes in the very grammar of the verse, ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ standing in simple apposition.
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