Genesis 8:17
Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
18And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
Genesis 9:1And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
Psalms 107:38He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
Jeremiah 31:27See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:16-20
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and… Read the whole commentary →