And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.

Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.

And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:

Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.

Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.

And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.)

And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.

For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth.

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?

The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.

And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:

With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.

And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames.

And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen.

And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag.

With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open.

It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.

Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.

So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;

And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower;

Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel.

The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red.

There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp.

And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.

With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.

And all the fat of it is to be burned on the altar like the fat of the peace-offering; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

Then if the priest sees that the growth of the disease has become red and white on his head or on his brow where there is no hair, like the mark in the skin of a leper;

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.

Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.

And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;

To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.

Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.

They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;