וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֨ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙ וּבְכָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכָל־הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
E disse Deus: <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','É comum o uso verbal plurálico no hebraico para a pessoa singular, como por exemplo quando diz Manoá (Juízes 13:15): ...Deixa que te detenhamos..., ou Daniel (2:36): Este é o sonho; agora diremos ao rei... referindo-se a si próprio. Assim, muitos outros casos. ');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">Façamos o homem</span> à nossa <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','O termo traduzido aqui por imagem não existe nas línguas ocidentais, e existem quatro termos para designar imagem ou forma em hebraico, pelo que a tendência da pessoa que lê esta tradução de pensar que Deus possui forma corporal ou espiritual é perfeitamente compreensível. Outrossim, o termo tzêlem (traduzido por imagem) indica algo mais profundo, como por exemplo, que toda a terra e os seres nela estejam submissos ao homem, sendo este o SENHOR sobre toda a terra, assim como Deus o é para toda a criação. Neste sentido o homem foi criado semelhante ao Criador.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">imagem</span>, conforme a nossa semelhança; domine ele sobre os peixes do mar, sobre as aves do céu, sobre os animais domésticos, e sobre toda a terra, e sobre todo réptil que se arrasta sobre a terra.
Bereishit Rabbah
... [R’ Simlai] said to them: In the past Adam was created from the adamah and Chavah was created from the adam. From here and onward, “in our image as our likeness”—not man without woman and not woman without man, and not both of them without Shekhinah (God’s presence).
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Rashi on Genesis
נעשה אדם WE WILL MAKE MAN — The meekness of the Holy One, blessed be He, they (the Rabbis) learned from here: because the man is in the likeness of the angels and they might envy him, therefore He took counsel with them (Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 18 and see Genesis Rabbah 8). And when He judges the kings He likewise consults His heavenly council, for thus we find in the case of Ahab to whom Micha said, (1 Kings 22:19) “I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.” Has God, then, a right hand and a left hand? But it means that some stood on the right side to plead in favour of the accused and others stood on the left side to accuse; and similarly we read (Daniel 4:14), “the matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones”, — here, also, He consulted His heavenly council and asked permission of them, saying to them: “There are in the heavens beings after My likeness; if there will not be on earth also beings after My likeness, there will be envy among the beings that I have created” (Sanhedrin 38b).
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Rashbam on Genesis
ויאמר, G’d addressed His angels.
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