KJV King James Version
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
WEB World English Bible
God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
ASV American Standard Version
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And God blesseth them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:’
Surrounding context — Genesis 1
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיְבָ֧רֶךְH1288 · ba.rakhto blessאֹתָ֛םH853 · et[Obj.]אֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodלֵאמֹ֑רH559 · a.marto sayפְּר֣וּH6509 · pa.rahbe fruitfulוּרְב֗וּH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyוּמִלְא֤וּH4390 · ma.leto fillאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַמַּ֙יִם֙H4325 · ma.yimwaterבַּיַּמִּ֔יםH3220 · yamseaוְהָע֖וֹףH5775 · ophbirdיִ֥רֶבH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyבָּאָֽרֶץ׃H776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Job 40:15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.Genesis 8:17Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.Psalm 107:38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.Genesis 35:11And God said unto him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.Genesis 30:30For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?Psalm 107:31Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!Leviticus 26:9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.Psalm 144:13-14[That] our garners [may be] full, affording all manner of store: [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:Psalm 128:3Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Genesis 30:27And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
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