Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.
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Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply. Fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
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 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 24:60They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, 1 “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, 1 and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.”
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 9:1
Both the world and the church were now again reduced to a family, the family of Noah, of the affairs of which this chapter gives us an account, of which we are the more concerned to take cognizance because from this family we are all descendants. Here is, I. The covenant of providence settled with Noah and his sons, ver. 1-11 . In this covenant, 1. God promises them to take care of their lives, so that, (1.) They should replenish the earth, ver. 1 , 7 . (2.) They should be safe from the insults of the… Read the whole commentary →