God’s Covenant With Noah

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.^(A)

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

⁹ “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,^(A) and I will keep my covenant^(B) with you.

Psalm 127

A song of ascents. Of Solomon.

¹⁷ I will surely bless you^(A) and make your descendants^(B) as numerous as the stars in the sky^(C) and as the sand on the seashore.^(D) Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,^{(E) 18} and through your offspring^[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,^[b](F) because you have obeyed me.”^(G)