Genesis 1:22
He blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, increase, fill the oceans, and let the birds increase on the land.”
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23There was an evening and a morning, making the fifth day.
Cross References
Genesis 8:17Bring out every living creature, every bird, cattle, and creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they can spread over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply.”
Genesis 30:27But Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes – I have divined that the Lord has blessed me for your sake.
Genesis 35:11God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and become numerous; a nation and a multitude of nations will come from you, and kings will descend from you;
Psalms 107:31Let them praise the Lord, for his kindness, for his wonderful deeds for people.
Psalms 128:3Like a fruitful vine shall your wife be in the innermost room of your house: your children, like olive shoots, round about 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 →