© Charles Chandler
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
Note that this is one of two creation myths, the first being the story of how both man & woman were created together, from nothing, after all other living things had been created, and the other being the story about man being created out of dust, later to create woman from one of his ribs.
5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.