1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. 10God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good. 11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. 12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; 15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. 16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” 21God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. 22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. 25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
26God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 1:26-28 seeks to emphasize three aspects of the creation of humanity. The first portion of this text in Hebrew becomes plain. The emphasis is that male and female, as man, is the creation of God, the word "man" being used generically. Next, the focus is that male and female is in the image of God. Last, the collective "man" is male and female by God's design.
Genesis 1:27-30
1:27 So God created man: The third time the verb for create is used in ch. 1 (see vv. 1, 21); it is used three times here. The language of 26 and 28 is elevated prose; this verse is pure poetry. The 12 words of the original Hebrew are arranged in three lines that have their own poetic repetition and cadence. The term for man is likely associated with the term for the red earth. Here the word is generic, including male and female. These words are sexual. Some have thought that the “discovery” of human sexuality was the forbidden fruit of Ch. 3. However, these words indicate that human sexuality was a part of the original creation (5:2). Although the misuse of human sexuality is soundly condemned in Scripture (Lev 18), its proper use is celebrated (Song 2:24, 25). Verses 26–28 include the woman no less than the man in the story of creation.
Adam is the name given to the first man in the creation narratives of Genesis. He was the husband of Eve and the father of Cain, Abel, and Seth. The Hebrew noun ’adham means “man” or “mankind” and is usually translated as “the man” in the early chapters of Genesis. These relate the creation of man; his naming of the various animals; the creation of his companion, the woman or Eve, and their expulsion from the paradisal Garden of Eden after disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, at the urging of the serpent. Expelled from Eden and reduced to a life of agricultural labor, Adam became the father of the ill-fated Cain and Abel, and later of Seth. (See Gen 1:26-30; 2:7, 8, 15-25; 3:6-4:1, 25; 5:1-5; 1 Chr 1:1; Luke 3:38; Rom 5:14; 1 Cor 15:45-49; 1 Tim 2:13,14; and Jude 14).
Biographies of Bible Characters, People and characters in the Bible, https://www.encinardemamre.com/en/Biographies/A.html