Genesis 1:22

Genesis chapter 1 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

Context

v.21And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

v.22This passage

v.23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 40:15
Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He eateth grass as an ox.
Psalms 107:38
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Psalms 128:3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.
Job 42:12
So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.