Genesis 1:22 - The Scriptures 1998

²² And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase 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."

Genesis 1:22 Cross References

Genesis 1:21

And Elohim created great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:23

And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 1:28

And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”

Genesis 30:27

And Laḇ

Genesis 30:30

“For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה  has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?”

Genesis 35:11

And Elohim said to him, “I am Ě

Genesis 8:17

“Bring out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you: of birds, of cattle and all creeping creatures that creep on the earth. And let them teem on the earth, and bear and increase on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

And Elohim blessed Noaḥ

Job 40:15

See now, Behĕ

Job 42:12

And יהוה  blessed the latter days of Iyoḇ

Psalm 107:31

Let them give thanks to יהוה  for His kindness, And His wonders to the children of men!

Psalm 107:38

And He blesses them, And they increase greatly; And He lets not their cattle diminish.

Psalm 128:3

Let your wife be As a fruit-bearing vine within your house, Your sons like olive plants all around your table.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of יהוה  makes one rich, And He adds no pain with it.

Leviticus 26:9

‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.