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God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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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.”
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God’s Covenant With Noah
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
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As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
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I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
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May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
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And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
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The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
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Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.
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and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’
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“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.
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but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
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But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
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“‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
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“‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
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The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.
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with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;
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But Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
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But Joab replied, “May the Lord multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord’s subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
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He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.
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The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,
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and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
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They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a fruitful harvest;
