Genesis 9:7 - Easy To Read Version

⁷ “Noah, you and your sons should have many children. Fill the earth with your people.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Common English Bible

⁷ As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it."

Genesis 9:7 Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God All-Powerful. [208] {And I give you this blessing:} Have many children and grow into a great nation. Other nations and other kings will come out of you.

Genesis 8:17

Bring every living animal out of the boat with you—all the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Those animals will make many more animals, and they will fill the earth again.”

Genesis 9:1

God blessed Noah and his sons. God said to him, “Have many children. Fill the earth with your people.

Genesis 9:19

Those three men were Noah’s sons. And all the people on earth came from those three sons.

Genesis 9:8

Then God said to Noah and his sons,

Jeremiah 29:6

Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons. And let your daughters be married. Do that so they also may have sons and daughters. Have many children and grow in number in Babylon. Don’t become fewer in number.