Genesis 9:1
Good News Translation
God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Contemporary English Version
God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.

New American Bible
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

blessed.

Genesis 9:7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

Genesis 1:22,28 And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth. . . .

Genesis 2:3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Genesis 8:17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

Genesis 24:60 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Psalm 128:3,4 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. . . .

Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Be.

Genesis 9:7,19 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it. . . .

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 8:17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

Genesis 10:32 These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.

Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
1And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.2And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 9:2
And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9:7
But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

Genesis 9:19
These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 8:22
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