Genesis 8:17
Bring 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.”
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In Context
16“Leave the ark with your wife and sons and their wives.
18So Noah left the ark with his sons and his wife and his son’s wives,
Cross References
Genesis 1:28Then 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,”
Genesis 9:1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Bear children and multiply and repopulate the earth.
Psalms 107:38By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he lets not their cattle decrease.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:16-20
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and… Read the whole commentary →