Genesis 1:22
God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Let birds multiply on the earth.”
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23This was evening and morning, the fifth day.
Cross References
Genesis 8:17Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—the birds, the animals, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—so that they may grow unto very large numbers of living creatures throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.”
Genesis 30:27Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, wait, because I have learned by using divination that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
Genesis 35:11God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
Job 40:15Look now at the behemoth, which I made when I made you; 1 he eats grass like an ox. 1
Psalms 107:31Oh that people would praise Yahweh for his covenant faithfulness 1 and for the amazing things he has done for humanity! 1
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine 1 in your house; 1 your children will be like olive plants 1 as they sit around your table. 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 →