Genesis 1:22
God blessed them and said, “Reproduce and increase, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
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23So there was evening, and then the morning, making day five.
Cross References
Genesis 8:17Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.”
Genesis 30:27“Please be so kind as to stay,” Laban replied, “because I have discovered that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
Genesis 35:11Then God said, “I am God Almighty! Reproduce, increase, and you will become a nation—in fact a group of nations—and kings will be among your descendants.
Job 40:15Consider Behemoth, a creature I made just like I made you. It eats grass like cattle.
Psalms 107:31Let them praise the Lord for his trustworthy love, and for all the wonderful things he does for people.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your table.
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 →