And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
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—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish.
“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
And 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 heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.
And 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 come from your own body.
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?”
But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
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