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Genesis 9:7
Genesis 9:7 is verse 7 of Genesis chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
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 on the earth, and multiply in it.”
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Genesis 9:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9 “Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 1:28God 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 8:17Bring 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.”