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Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Gen 1:26-27).2
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what are mere mortals that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than [God] and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet. . . (Ps 8:3-6)
Whoever sheds human blood, by human beings shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made humankind. (Gen 9:6)