Genesis 1:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish 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 moveth upon the earth.

Common English Bible

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and master it. Take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, and everything crawling on the ground.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 1:28 Cross References

Genesis 1:22

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

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”

Genesis 26:24

And that very night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you and make your offspring numerous for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Genesis 33:5

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 49:25

by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Genesis 5:2

Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and called them humans when they were created.

Genesis 6:1

When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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 9:7

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

1 Chronicles 26:5

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from hurt and harm!” And God granted what he asked.

Job 39:11

Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?

Job 42:12

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

Psalm 107:38

By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.

Psalm 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Psalm 8:6

You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet,

Psalm 8:7

all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos; he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain my covenant with you.

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.