⁷ Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”

God Confirms His Covenant

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

¹⁹ From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth.

¹⁷ Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.”