Study it in the app“And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.””
God makes human beings in his image, male and female, and blesses themCreationGod blesses humankind and tasks them to fill the earth, subdue it and rule over the animalsWork and RestMale and female, both in God's image and blessed togetherDating and Marriage
AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםblessedיְבָרֶךְthem,אֹתָםandוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםsaidיֹּאמֶרto them,לָהֶם“Be fruitfulפְּרוּand multiplyוּרְבוּand fillוּמִלְאוּthe earthאֶת הָאָרֶץand subdue it,וְכִבְשֻׁהָand ruleוּרְדוּover the fishבִּדְגַתof the seaהַיָּםand over the birdsוּבְעוֹףof the skyהַשָּׁמַיִםand over everyוּבְכָלanimalחַיָּהthat creepsהָרֹמֶשֶׂתon the earth.”עַל הָאָרֶץ
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsbless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “yevarech” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsbe fruitful
Bear fruit; be fruitful, have descendants.
Where else “peru” appearsmultiply
To grow in number.
Where else “revu” appearsfill
To take up all the space of something, or to give someone all it can hold.
Where else “milu” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearssubdue
To put a land or a people under one's own power until they are held in subjection.
Where else “chivshu” appearsrule
To hold sway, govern.
Where else “redu” appearsfish
Fish; everything that lives in the water (a collective word).
Where else “degat” appearssea
The sea, or a large lake.
Where else “yam” appearsbird
The animals with wings and feathers that fly through the sky: doves, eagles, ravens.
Where else “of” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsbeast
Literally "living thing": a creature, especially a wild one.
Where else “chaya” appearscreep, move
Move along the ground or glide: creep, crawl. It is said of small land animals and also of those that move in the water.
Where else “romeset” appears27And Elohim created the human being in his image; in the image of Elohim he created him; male and female he created them.
28 · This verse (above)
29And Elohim said, “Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it will be food for you.
1. What it says
What did Elohim say about everything he had made at the end of the sixth day (v. 31)?
2. What it means
What does the text say about human beings when it says they were created in the image of Elohim (v. 27)?
3. How I live it
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?
