And God said, Let Us make man according to Our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

And God made man, according to the image of God He made him, male and female He made them.

This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God He made him:

[ 3:7] And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

[ 3:8] And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves coverings to go around them.

[ 6:6] And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

[ 6:7] that God took it to heart that He had made man upon the earth, and He pondered it deeply.

[ 6:12] But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

[ 6:13] And the Lord God saw the earth, that it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one language of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they have undertaken to do.

O Lord our God, You heard them; O God, You became propitious to them, though You took vengeance on all their devices.

and destruction was multiplied among them.

and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring by their own deeds.

The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horrorstruck, says the Lord.

For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.

Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

And they have set at nought My holy things, and in you they have profaned My Sabbaths.

In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.

In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.

"For having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other similar things you do."

And He said to them, "Well do you set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your tradition.

saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us; as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'

But God turned away and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.

who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

What then? Are we [any] better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

And the way of peace they did not know.

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.