Genesis 1:22

And God blesses them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the bird multiply in the earth”:

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In The King James Version

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

In Context

21And God creates the great dragons, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every bird with wing, after its kind, and God sees that [it is] good.

23and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] fifth day.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:17and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”

Genesis 30:27And Laban says to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake.”

Genesis 35:11And God says to him, “I [am] God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from you, and kings from your loins go out;

Job 40:15Now behold, behemoth, || That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox.

Psalms 107:31They confess to YHWH His kindness, || And His wonders to the sons of men,

Psalms 128:3Your wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of your house, || Your sons as olive plants 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 →

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