Genesis 1:22

World English Bible (2000)

God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

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  • Gen 8:17 : 17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
  • Gen 9:1 : 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
  • Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
  • Job 42:12 : 12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
  • Job 40:15 : 15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.
  • Ps 107:31 : 31 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works for the children of men!
  • Gen 30:27 : 27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
  • Gen 30:30 : 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
  • Gen 35:11 : 11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
  • Lev 26:9 : 9 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
  • Ps 144:13-14 : 13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields. 14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
  • Prov 10:22 : 22 Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

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  • Gen 1:23-31
    9 verses
    89%

    23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

    25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

    28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

    29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

    30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

    31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

  • Gen 1:17-21
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    17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

    18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

    19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

    21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 9:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

    2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

  • Gen 8:17
    80%

    17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

  • Gen 9:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

    8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

  • Gen 1:6-12
    7 verses
    76%

    6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

    8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

    10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

    11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 1:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

    15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

  • Gen 2:19
    74%

    19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 7:3
    73%

    3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

  • Gen 7:14
    73%

    14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

  • Gen 5:2
    73%

    2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.

  • Ps 148:10
    72%

    10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

  • Ps 8:8
    72%

    8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

  • Gen 9:10
    72%

    10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

  • Gen 6:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

    20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

  • Gen 1:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

    3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

  • Gen 8:19
    71%

    19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

  • Gen 28:3
    71%

    3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

  • Gen 8:15
    71%

    15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

  • Deut 4:17
    71%

    17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

  • Heb 6:14
    71%

    14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

  • Exod 1:7
    71%

    7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

  • Gen 2:4
    71%

    4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.