Genesis 9:7
Forsooth increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and enter ye on [the] earth, and fill ye it.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
In Context
8Also the Lord said these things to Noe, and to his sons with him,
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and said, Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth, and make ye it subject; and be ye lords to the fishes of the sea, and to [the] volatiles of (the) heaven (s), and to all living beasts that be moved on [the] earth, (or and be ye lords, or rule ye, over the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and all the living beasts that move on the earth).
Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth;
Jeremiah 29:6take ye wives, and engender ye sons and daughters, and give ye wives to your sons, and give ye your daughters to husbands, and bear they sons and daughters; and be ye multiplied there, and do not ye be few in number.
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 →