Genesis 1:22

And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

In Context

21And God made great + 1:21 Or, probably any large fish, or marine animals, whether cetaceous or not. whales, and + 1:21 Gr. every soul of living reptiles. every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good.

23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:17And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase you⌃ and multiply upon the earth.

Genesis 30:27And Laban said to him, If I have found grace in your sight, + 30:27 Stay you, perhaps understood. Heb. I have argued that, etc. I would augur well, for the Lord has blessed me at your coming in.

Genesis 35:11And God said to him, I am your God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come out of your loins.

Job 40:15And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

Psalms 128:3The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their + 128:3 שיך iniquity, easily read for שוכה a furrow. iniquity. 1

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 →

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