²⁶ Then God said, ^(A)“Let us make man^[a] in our image, ^(B)after our likeness. And ^(C)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²³ Then the man said,

^24 (C)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.