Genesis 9:7
Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
In Context
8Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
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!
Jeremiah 29:6Get married and have children. Arrange for your children to get married so they can have children too. Increase in number, don't decrease.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8
Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →