Psalms 50:10

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

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

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,

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

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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.”

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.

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

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

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

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

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

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.

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.”

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

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.”

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

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

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

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;

Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.

But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.

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

So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.

David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

“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.

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

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

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.