Genesis 8:17
Let 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.”
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In Context
16“Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.
18So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark.
Cross References
Genesis 1:28God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 9:1God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth!
Psalms 107:38He takes care of them, and their numbers increase dramatically—their cattle too!
Jeremiah 31:27Look! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make the numbers of people and livestock grow in Israel and Judah.
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 →