Genesis 1:22

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

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.”

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

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ”

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

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.

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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.

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

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

Yahweh’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.

Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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.

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

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.

I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

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

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

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.”

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

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.

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

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”