Genesis 9:1 - English Standard Version 2016

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND GOD pronounced a blessing upon Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Common English Bible

¹ God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: "Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 9:1 Cross References

Genesis 1:22

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

Genesis 1:28

And 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 heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 10:32

These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 2:3

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!”

Genesis 35:11

And 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 come from your own body.

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—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 9:19

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.

Genesis 9:2

The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Genesis 9:7

And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.