Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Cross References (22)

  • Genesis 9:1 (47)

    And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

  • Genesis 9:7 (37)

    But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

  • Leviticus 26:9 (28)

    I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

  • Psalms 128:3–4 (24)

    Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your ta

  • Genesis 22:17–18 (21)

    I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Yo

  • Genesis 1:22 (19)

    Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the

  • Genesis 17:20 (18)

    As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He wil

  • Psalms 127:1–5 (18)

    A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects th

  • Isaiah 45:18 (17)

    For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He d

  • Genesis 8:17 (16)

    Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so tha

  • Psalms 107:38 (15)

    He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:10 (14)

    And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with m

  • Genesis 26:3–4 (14)

    Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your

  • Genesis 26:24 (11)

    and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with

  • Genesis 49:25 (11)

    by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with

  • Genesis 17:16 (10)

    And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kin

  • Genesis 24:60 (8)

    And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your o

  • Job 42:12 (8)

    So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and

  • Genesis 33:5 (5)

    When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the c

  • 1 Chronicles 26:5 (5)

    Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth. For God had blessed Obed-edom.

  • Psalms 69:34 (5)

    Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

  • 1 Timothy 4:3 (2)

    They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiv