Genesis 1:22

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:21

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

Genesis 1:23

So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 30:27

Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

Genesis 30:30

For you had little before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you since I came, and now when may I also provide for my own house?”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings shall come forth from you.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

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

Job 40:15

“Look now at the behemoth which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox.

Job 42:12

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

Psalm 107:31

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of men!

Psalm 107:38

He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly; and He does not let their livestock decrease.

Psalm 128:3

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

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and He adds no toil to it.

Leviticus 26:9

I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.