Genesis 6:20

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

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:

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

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

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

Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths;

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.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

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

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

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

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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.

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.”

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

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.

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

The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

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.”

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

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.

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.”

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

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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.

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

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

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

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

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

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.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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

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

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.