Genesis 9:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:1 : 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
  • Gen 9:19 : 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
  • 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 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    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 8:15-18
    4 verses
    85%

    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.

    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."

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

  • Gen 1:28
    81%

    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 9:8-10
    3 verses
    80%

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

    9 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

    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 1:22
    79%

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

  • Jer 29:6
    75%

    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 9:6
    75%

    6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

  • Gen 28:3
    74%

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

  • Gen 9:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

    20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

  • Exod 1:7
    73%

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

  • Ps 107:37
    72%

    37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • Deut 7:13
    72%

    13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

  • Gen 7:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    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."

  • Heb 6:14
    72%

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

  • Gen 6:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 17:6
    71%

    6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

  • Gen 17:2
    71%

    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

  • Lev 26:9
    71%

    9 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

  • Gen 7:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    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.

    10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

  • Gen 1:26
    71%

    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."

  • Gen 6:1
    70%

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

  • Ezek 36:11
    70%

    11 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Gen 6:10
    70%

    10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Gen 9:17
    70%

    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."

  • Gen 9:27
    70%

    27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."

  • Deut 28:4
    70%

    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 6:21
    70%

    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 1:11
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 10:32
    69%

    32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

  • Gen 22:17
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 9:12
    69%

    12 God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: