Vayyibəra’ elohim et-hadam bətsalmo.
“And God created man/adam in His image.” This is only the second use of the specific verb bara, ‘to create’. So far, after creating matter, it would seem, God has been making use of matter to make new creatures. By a process of separation, He formed light and darkness, and by the process of ‘bringing forth’, the plants and animals sprang up. But when it comes to creating man, God must both ‘make’ (1: 26, Hebrew na’aseh) man, but also ‘create’ Him in His image. This indicates that man is a two-fold creature, matter and spirit. Chapter 2 communicates the same truth in the two-fold process of forming man’s body from the earth, but breathing in, from God’s own breath, a spiritual nature besides.