God’s Promise to Noah

9 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and ^(B)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that ^[a]moves on the earth.”

¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and ^(A)be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

²² And God blessed them, saying, ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

³ Then God ^(A)blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

^32 (A)These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; ^(B)and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

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