Genesis 1:22

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Summary

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, those that crawl on the ground—and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

God also said to him:

I am God Almighty.
Be fruitful and multiply.
A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,
will come from you,
and kings will descend from you.

“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.

Look at Behemoth,
which I made along with you.
He eats grass like an ox.

So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Let them give thanks to the Lord
for His faithful love
and His wonderful works for all humanity.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.

Our storehouses will be full,
supplying all kinds of produce;
our flocks will increase by thousands
and tens of thousands in our open fields.

The Lord’s blessing enriches,
and struggle adds nothing to it.