Genesis 1:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:23

And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 1:28

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

Genesis 30:27

But Laban said to him, “If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;

Genesis 30:30

For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Genesis 8:17

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

Genesis 9:1

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

Job 40:15

“Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you; it eats grass like an ox.

Job 42:12

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

Psalm 107:31

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.

Psalm 107:38

By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.

Psalm 128:3

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

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and toil adds nothing to it.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain my covenant with you.