Genesis 9:7 “But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth…”

Genesis 9:7

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

World English Bible

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

American Standard Version

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Geneva Bible 1599

But bring ye forth fruite and multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.

Darby Translation

And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

Young's Literal Translation

And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

Bible in Basic English

And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

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Cross references

“And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”

Genesis 9:1 Genesis 9:19 Genesis 1:28 Genesis 8:17

Genesis 9:1 · BSB

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

Genesis 9:19 · BSB

These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 1:28 · BSB

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 the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Genesis 8:17 · BSB

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

8Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

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