Genesis 9:7

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

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

The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

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

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.

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.

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.

Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters

Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

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.

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

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.

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 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 book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

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.

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

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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.

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.”

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.

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 sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.

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.

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.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

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,

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

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.”

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

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.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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.

He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

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.

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.

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

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

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

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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.