Parallel Verses
Amplified
“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Holman Bible
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
International Standard Version
Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it."
A Conservative Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.
American Standard Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Bible in Basic English
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
Darby Translation
And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.
Julia Smith Translation
And you, be ye fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it
King James 2000
And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it."
Modern King James verseion
And you be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein."
NET Bible
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it."
New Heart English Bible
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
The Emphasized Bible
Ye, therefore, be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth and multiply therein.
Webster
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
World English Bible
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
Youngs Literal Translation
And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'
Interlinear
Parah
Rabah
רבה
Rabah
multiply, increase, much, many, more, great, long, store, exceedingly, greater, abundance,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 9:7
Prayers for Genesis 9:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant With Noah
6
“Whoever sheds man’s blood [unlawfully],
By man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.
“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
Cross References
Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you every living thing from all flesh—birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth—that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 9:19
These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated and scattered with inhabitants.