Genesis 9:7
Good News Translation
"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."

New Revised Standard Version
And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it.”

Contemporary English Version
I want you and your descendants to have many children, so people will live everywhere on earth.

New American Bible
Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

Genesis 9:1,19 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth. . . .

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.

Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. 7But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.8Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:…
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 9:1
And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:8
Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:

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 9:6
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