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Genesis 9:7

As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

In Context

6I made people to be like myself in many ways. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, because he killed someone who is like me.

8God also said to Noah and his sons,

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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.

Jeremiah 29:6Get married and have children. Then when they grow up, choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they also may have children. In that way, the number of you people will increase, not decrease.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8

Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →

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