¹⁷ Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”^(A)

⁷ As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”^(A)

¹⁹ These were the three sons of Noah,^(A) and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.^(B)

³² These are the clans of Noah’s sons,^(A) according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth^(B) after the flood.