Genesis 1:22 - Revised Version 1885

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

Genesis 1:22 Cross References

Genesis 1:21

And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after 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 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.

Genesis 30:27

And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have divined that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

Genesis 30:30

For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

Genesis 35:11

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Genesis 8:17

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Genesis 9:1

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

Job 40:15

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; He eateth grass as all ox.

Job 42:12

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Psalm 107:31

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalm 107:38

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Psalm 128:3

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house: Thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

Leviticus 26:9

And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish my covenant with you.