Genesis 1:20

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

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

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

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

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

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

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

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

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

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”