Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Genesis 1:28And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
Genesis 8:17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may swarm in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.'
Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.
Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.'
Psalms 128:3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:1
Both the world and the church were now again reduced to a family, the family of Noah, of the affairs of which this chapter gives us an account, of which we are the more concerned to take cognizance because from this family we are all descendants. Here is, I. The covenant of providence settled with Noah and his sons, ver. 1-11 . In this covenant, 1. God promises them to take care of their lives, so that, (1.) They should replenish the earth, ver. 1 , 7 . (2.) They should be safe from the insults of the… Read the whole commentary →