Genesis 9:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and have dominion over it.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.

American Standard Version (1901)

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Common English Bible

As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 9:7 Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

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

Genesis 9:19

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was peopled.

Genesis 9:8

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.