Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you all the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that scurry across the ground, in order that they can spread all over the earth and become very numerous.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
16“Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
18So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
Cross References
Genesis 1:28God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.”
Genesis 9:1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
Psalms 107:38He blesses the people, and the women give birth to many children, and they have large herds of cattle.
Jeremiah 31:27Then Yahweh said to me, “There will be a time when I will greatly increase [MET] the number of people and the number of livestock here in Israel and Judah.
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 →