Genesis 8:17

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 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."
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
  • 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.
  • Jer 31:27-28 : 27 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal. 28 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.
  • 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."
  • Gen 7:14-15 : 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. 15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 8:15-16
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    15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

    16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

  • Gen 8:18-19
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    86%

    18 Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

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

  • Gen 9:7-8
    2 verses
    85%

    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,

  • 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 9:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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 7:7-9
    3 verses
    82%

    7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

    8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

    9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

  • Gen 6:17-21
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    17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

    18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

    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.

    21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

  • Gen 7:13-18
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    80%

    13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

    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.

    15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

    16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

    17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

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

  • 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."

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    77%

    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

    24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

  • Gen 1:24-25
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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.

  • 1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

  • Gen 7:1-4
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    1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

    2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

    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.

    4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

  • 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

  • 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."

  • Gen 8:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

    7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

  • 17 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

  • 13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.