Genesis 1:22
And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
23And the evening and morning were the fifth day.
Cross References
Genesis 8:17All livings things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increased and multiply upon it.
Genesis 30:27Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.
Genesis 35:11And said to him: I am God Almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
Job 40:15To him the mountains bring forth grass : there all the beasts of the field shall play.
Psalms 107:31Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
Psalms 128:3behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:21-24
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the… Read the whole commentary →