Genesis 8:17

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

Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

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

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.

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

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

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

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.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

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.

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.

for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

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.

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

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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.”

“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.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

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

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

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

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.

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

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.”

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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.

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.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

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

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

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.”

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

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.”

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.

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.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

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.

Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.

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.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

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

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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

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

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

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.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.

“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

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

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.