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22 Bible Verses About the Creation of Man

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Summary

  • Genesis 1:26-27 has God make mankind in his image, male and female, with rule over the animals; Genesis 2:7 has the Lord God form the man from the dust and breathe life into him.
  • The Hebrew adam means mankind and is also Adam’s name, and Genesis 2:7 forms him from the adamah, the ground.
  • Genesis 9:6 grounds the law against killing in the image of God, and James 3:9 applies the same reasoning to cursing people.
  • Psalm 139:13-16, Job 10:8-9 and Jeremiah 1:5 apply God’s making to one person in the womb.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:45 quotes Genesis 2:7 and sets Christ, “the last Adam,” beside the first man.

The Bible says God made human beings in his own image, male and female, and formed the first man from the dust of the ground and breathed life into him. Both statements come from the opening chapters, Genesis 1:26-28 and Genesis 2:7. Genesis tells it in two accounts side by side: in Genesis 1 God makes mankind in God’s image and gives them rule over the animals, and in Genesis 2:7-23 the Lord God forms the man and then makes…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 120, אָדָם (adam): man, mankind, Adam. biblehub.com/hebrew/120

Strong’s Hebrew 127, אֲדָמָה (adamah): ground, land; from the same root as adam. biblehub.com/hebrew/127

Strong’s Hebrew 802, אִשָּׁה (ishshah): woman, wife. biblehub.com/hebrew/802

Strong’s Hebrew 376, אִישׁ (ish): man. biblehub.com/hebrew/376

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