Genesis 8:17
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!”
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- Gen 1:22 : 22 God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
- Gen 9:1 : 1 God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
- Gen 9:7 : 7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
- Ps 107:38 : 38 He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
- Ps 144:13-14 : 13 Our storehouses will be full, providing all kinds of food. Our sheep will multiply by the thousands and fill our pastures. 14 Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.
- Jer 31:27-28 : 27 Israel and Judah Will Be Repopulated“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah. 28 In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished and brought disaster. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the LORD, affirm it!”
- Gen 1:28 : 28 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.”
- Gen 7:14-15 : 14 They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
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- Gen 8:15-162 verses87%
15 Then God spoke to Noah and said,
16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
- Gen 8:18-192 verses86%
18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
- Gen 9:7-82 verses85%
7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
8 God said to Noah and his sons,
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10 and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.
- Gen 9:1-22 verses83%
1 God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.
- Gen 7:7-93 verses82%
7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
- Gen 6:17-215 verses80%
17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
18 but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
20 Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.
21 And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.”
- Gen 7:13-186 verses80%
13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.
14 They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
16 Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
18 The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
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22 God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
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28 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.”
- Gen 7:23-242 verses77%
23 So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
- Gen 1:24-252 verses76%
24 God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
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1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
- Gen 7:1-44 verses75%
1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
2 You must take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,
3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.
4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
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21 And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.
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20 God said,“Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”
- Gen 8:6-72 verses73%
6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
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17 So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”
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13 So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.