Genesis 9:1
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The Covenant with Noah
9 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.(A)
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Genesis 1:28
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28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”(A)
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Genesis 9:7
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7 “And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and have dominion over[a] it.”(A)
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Genesis 8:17
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17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”(A)
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Genesis 1:22
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22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”(A)
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Psalm 128:3-4
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3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.(A)
4 Thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
Genesis 2:3
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3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.(A)
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Isaiah 51:2
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2 Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah, who bore you,
for he was but one when I called him,
but I blessed him and made him many.(A)
Genesis 10:32
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32 These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.(A)
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Psalm 112:1
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Psalm 112
Blessings of the Righteous
1 Praise the Lord!
Happy are those who fear the Lord,
who greatly delight in his commandments.(A)
Genesis 24:60
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60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister, become
thousands of myriads;
may your offspring gain possession
of the gates of their foes.”(A)
Genesis 9:19
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19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was peopled.(A)
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