Genesis 1:27
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27 God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female[a] he created them.
Genesis 2:7
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7 then the Lord God formed the man[a] out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)
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- 2:7 God is portrayed as a potter molding the human body out of earth. There is a play on words in Hebrew between ’adam (“human being,” “man”) and ’adama (“ground”). It is not enough to make the body from earth; God must also breathe into the man’s nostrils. A similar picture of divine breath imparted to human beings in order for them to live is found in Ez 37:5, 9–10; Jn 20:22. The Israelites did not think in the (Greek) categories of body and soul.
Genesis 2:22
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22 The Lord God then built the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman. When he brought her to the man,
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1 Corinthians 11:8-9
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8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;(A) 9 nor was man created for woman, but woman for man;(B)
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