Genesis 1:28

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Gen 9:1 : 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
  • Gen 9:7 : 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
  • Lev 26:9 : 9 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
  • Gen 1:22 : 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
  • 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."
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!" God granted him that which he requested.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
  • Gen 17:20 : 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
  • Gen 22:17-18 : 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
  • Gen 26:3-4 : 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
  • Gen 26:24 : 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
  • Gen 33:5 : 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
  • Gen 49:25 : 25 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
  • 1 Chr 26:5 : 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
  • 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 69:34 : 34 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
  • Ps 127:1-5 : 1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones. 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.
  • Ps 128:3-4 : 3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. 4 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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    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.

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

  • Gen 9:1-3
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    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.

    3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

  • Gen 1:24-27
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    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.

  • Gen 9:7-8
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    7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

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  • Gen 8:17
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    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 1:29-30
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    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.

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    18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

    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 5:1-2
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    1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.

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  • Gen 2:15-16
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    15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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  • Gen 1:9-12
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    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
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    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;

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

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    6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

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  • Jer 29:6
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    6 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.

  • Gen 1:17-18
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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.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 9:10
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    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.

  • Mark 10:6
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    6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

  • Ps 107:37-38
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    37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

    38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.

  • Deut 28:4
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    4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

  • Gen 6:19
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    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.

  • Exod 1:7
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    7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

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

  • Gen 1:1
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    1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.