Genesis 1:28

Then God blessed them, and said to them: “Be fruitful, grow in number, fill the earth and govern it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls on the ground,”

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In The King James Version

And 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 moveth upon the earth.

In Context

27So God created humans in his image, he created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.

29God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant throughout all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit. They will be food for you,

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Cross References

Genesis 6:1When people began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 9:1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Bear children and multiply and repopulate the earth.

Genesis 17:16I will bless her, and will give you a son from her: I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”

Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you. I will make your children as many as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, so that they will conquer their enemies.

Genesis 26:3stay in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these lands, and will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father:

Genesis 33:5When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “The children whom God has so kindly given me.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:27-29

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have… Read the whole commentary →

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