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 said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!"

Then 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, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you."

Then God said to him, "I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation -- even a company of nations -- will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

"Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job's life more than the first. He had 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 loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

Our storehouses will be full, providing all kinds of food. Our sheep will multiply by the thousands and fill our pastures.

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.