Genesis 1:22

New American Bible - revised edition

and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 1:21

God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good,

Genesis 1:23

Evening came, and morning followed—the fifth day.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.

Genesis 30:27

Laban answered him: “If you will please! I have learned through divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

Genesis 30:30

the little you had before I came has grown into an abundance, since the Lord has blessed you in my company. Now, when can I do something for my own household as well?”

Genesis 35:11

Then God said to him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will stem from you, and kings will issue from your loins.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you—all creatures, be they birds or animals or crawling things that crawl on the earth—and let them abound on the earth, and be fertile and multiply on it.

Genesis 9:1

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth.

Job 40:15

Look at Behemoth, whom I made along with you, who feeds on grass like an ox.

Job 42:12

Thus the Lord blessed the later days of Job more than his earlier ones. Now he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Psalm 107:31

Let them thank the Lord for his mercy, such wondrous deeds for the children of Adam.

Psalm 107:38

God blessed them, and they increased greatly, and their livestock did not decrease.

Psalm 128:3

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

Proverbs 10:22

It is the Lord’s blessing that brings wealth, and no effort can substitute for it.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you.