Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
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Referenced Verses
- 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 9:19 : 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
- 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 8:17 : 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 9:1-22 verses88%
1God’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.
2Every 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 8:15-184 verses85%
15Then God spoke to Noah and said,
16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17Bring 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!”
18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
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28God 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 9:8-103 verses80%
8God said to Noah and his sons,
9“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you
10and 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.
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22God 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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6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.
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6“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
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3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
- Gen 9:19-202 verses73%
19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
20Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.
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7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
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37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.
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13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
- Gen 7:1-44 verses72%
1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
2You 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,
3and 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.
4For 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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14saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”
- Gen 6:18-192 verses71%
18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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6I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
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2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”
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9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.
- Gen 7:7-104 verses71%
7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
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26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
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1God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
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11I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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17So 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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27May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”
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4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
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21And 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.”
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11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
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32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.
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17I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
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12And God said,“This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations: