Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image.

In the first two Chapter s we meet with four different verbs which express the creative work of God, viz: (1) To create; (2) to make; (3) to form; (4) to build. The first (to create) is used of the creation of the universe (verse 1), of the creation of the great sea monsters, whose vastness appears to have excited special wonder (verse 21), and of the creation of man (verse 27), the head of animated nature, in the image of God. Everywhere else we read of God making, as from an already created substance, the firmament, the sun, the stars, the brute creation, etc.-- S. C.

In his image.

The image of God consists in knowledge, righteousness and true holiness (see Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24; Ecclesiastes 7:29). Though the image was greatly marred by the fall it was not, wholly effaced; hence, murder is made the most awful of crimes, because it strikes at the Image of God (Genesis 9:6).

Male and female created he them.

There was one and only one created of each sex, and it was thus taught to all ages that it was the divine will that. man should have but one wife, and. woman but one husband.