Genesis 1:22 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And he blessed them, saying: "Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea. And let the birds be multiplied above the land."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

Common English Bible

²² Then God blessed them: “Be fertile and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

English Standard Version 2016

²² And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1:22 Cross References

Genesis 1:21

And God created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:23

And it became evening and morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them, and he said, "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Genesis 30:27

Laban said to him: "May I find grace in your sight. I have learned by experience that God has blessed me because of you.

Genesis 30:30

You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at sometime I also should provide for my own house."

Genesis 35:11

and he said to him: "I am Almighty God: increase and multiply. Tribes and peoples of nations will be from you, and kings will go forth from your loins.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it."

Genesis 9:1

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

Job 40:15

The mountains bring forth grass for him; all the beasts of the field will play there.

Job 42:12

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Psalm 128:3

The sinners have made fabrications behind my back. They have prolonged their iniquity.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord causes riches. Affliction will not be a companion to them.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you, and I will cause you to increase; you will be multiplied, and I will confirm my covenant with you.