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BerhaneSelassie
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The verse can be a reference to The Father and the Holy Spirit making man in their image, male and female. Some of the Church Fathers saw Adam’s father as the Father, and his mother as the Holy Spirit. Perhaps it is feasible to conceive that the plural conjugation refers to the God and the Earth, since Adam was made from the soil of the Earth and the earth in Hebrew is a feminine word (eretz), of course this would require a figurative speech with an object lacking consciousness, which the Scriptures sometimes do (Joshua commanded the sun to be still), and Jesus in Matt 21:19 told the tree no fruits would grow on it. Some Jewish exegetes have understood the plural to be God speaking with the angels, however I believe Isaiah says God alone created.