Genesis 9:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ And Elohim blessed Noaḥ and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase, 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 Elohim blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

Genesis 1:28

And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful 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 creeping creatures on the earth.”

Genesis 10:32

These were the clans of the sons of Noaḥ, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 2:3

And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Riḇqah and said to her, “Let our sister become the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gates of those who hate them.”

Genesis 35:11

And Elohim said to him, “I am Ěl Shaddai. Be fruitful and increase, a nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and sovereigns come from your body.

Genesis 8:17

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

Genesis 9:19

These three were the sons of Noaḥ, and all the earth was overspread from them.

Genesis 9:2

“And the fear of you and the dread of you is on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea – into your hand they have been given.

Genesis 9:7

“As for you, be fruitful and increase, bring forth teemingly in the earth and increase in it.”

Psalm 112:1

Aleph Praise Yah! Blessed is the man, Who fears יהוה, Bĕt Who has greatly delighted in His commands.

Isaiah 51:2

“Look to Aḇraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For he was alone when I called him, and I blessed him and increased him.