Genesis 1:28

Modern English Version

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.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:22

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

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold. I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 26:24

The Lord appeared to him that same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

Genesis 33:5

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he said, “Who are those with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 49:25

because of the God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings from heaven above, blessings from the deep that lies beneath, the blessings of the breasts and the womb.

Genesis 5:2

He created them male and female. He blessed them and called them Mankind in the day when they were created.

Genesis 6:1

When men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

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.

Genesis 9:7

And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.”

1 Chronicles 26:5

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth (for God blessed him).

1 Chronicles 4:10

Then Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that You would indeed bless me and enlarge my territory, that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that it may not bring me hardship!” So God granted what he asked.

Job 39:11

Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

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 107:38

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

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth has He given to the sons of men.

Psalm 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Psalm 8:6

You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

Psalm 8:7

all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Leviticus 26:9

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

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.