“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.””
Genesis 1:28
BSBGo deeper on this verse (3)
- In the Beginning: Why God Created by Speaking (Genesis 1)
- Let There Be Light: The Ten Sayings of Genesis 1 and the Word Behind Them
Connection with God's blessing on Noah
After the flood, God's first words to Noah repeated this blessing: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth" (Genesis 9:1). The Hebrew verbs parah, be fruitful, and rabah, multiply, are the same two God spoke over the animals leaving the ark (Genesis 8:17), now carried across the flood and set over Noah himself.
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