Genesis 1:28

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:22

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

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. Her also will I bless; she will give rise to nations, and rulers of peoples will issue from her.

Genesis 17:20

Now as for Ishmael, I will heed you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said: “Sister, may you grow into thousands of myriads; And may your descendants gain possession of the gates of their enemies!”

Genesis 26:24

The same night the Lord appeared to him 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 Abraham, my servant.

Genesis 33:5

Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children and asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “They are the children with whom God has graciously favored your servant.”

Genesis 49:25

The God of your father, who helps you, God Almighty, who blesses you, With the blessings of the heavens above, the blessings of the abyss that crouches below, The blessings of breasts and womb,

Genesis 5:2

he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and named them humankind.

Genesis 6:1

When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them,

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.

Genesis 9:7

Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.

1 Chronicles 26:5

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

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez prayed to the God of Israel: “Oh, that you may truly bless me and extend my boundaries! May your hand be with me and make me free of misfortune, without pain!” And God granted his prayer.

Job 39:11

Will you depend on him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?

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 107:38

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

Psalm 115:16

The heavens belong to the Lord, but he has given the earth to the children of Adam.

Psalm 69:34

For the Lord hears the poor, and does not spurn those in bondage.

Psalm 8:6

Yet you have made him little less than a god, crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:7

You have given him rule over the works of your hands, put all things at his feet:

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, The creator of the heavens, who is God, The designer and maker of the earth who established it, Not as an empty waste did he create it, but designing it to be lived in: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Leviticus 26:9

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

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.