Genesis 1:22 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

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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.”

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."

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.

Genesis 1:22 Cross References

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:23

And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

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 air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Genesis 30:27

But Laban said to him, “If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;

Genesis 30:30

For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”

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 spring from you.

Genesis 8:17

Bring forth 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 breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

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

Job 40:15

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

Job 42:12

And 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 she-asses.

Psalm 107:31

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

Psalm 107:38

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

Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Leviticus 26:9

And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.