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24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature, each kind of livestock and crawling thing, and each kind of earth’s animals!”[a] And that is what happened:[b] 25 God made each kind of the earth’s animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing.[c] And God saw how good it was.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us.[d] Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly,[e] the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:24 I.e., non-domesticated animals, as opposed to domesticated livestock; and so through 2:25
  2. Genesis 1:24 Lit. And so it was
  3. Genesis 1:25 Lit. thing of the earth
  4. Genesis 1:26 Lit. image, according to our likeness
  5. Genesis 1:26 Lit. birds of the sky; and so through 2:25