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Genesis 9:1
Christian Standard Bible
Genesis 9:1
Christian Standard Bible
God’s 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 9:1
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Genesis 9:1
New International Version
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)
Genesis 9:1
King James Version
Genesis 9:1
King James Version
9 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Genesis 9:1
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Genesis 9:1
New King James Version
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.
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Genesis 9:1
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Genesis 9:1
English Standard Version
9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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Genesis 9:7
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Genesis 9:7
Christian Standard Bible
7 But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”(A)
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Genesis 9:7
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Genesis 9:7
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7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”(A)
Genesis 9:7
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Genesis 9:7
King James Version
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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Genesis 9:7
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Genesis 9:7
New King James Version
7 And as for you, (A)be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”
Genesis 9:7
English Standard Version
Genesis 9:7
English Standard Version
7 And you,[a] be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
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- Genesis 9:7 In Hebrew you is plural
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