Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis 9:7 in other translations
| BSB | But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.” |
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| WEB | Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.” |
| ASV | And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. |
| YLT | And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.' |
| DARBY | And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it. |
| BBE | And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number. |
| Webster | And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. |
What does Genesis 9:7 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 9:4-7
The main reason of forbidding the eating of blood, doubtless was because the shedding of blood in sacrifices was to keep the worshippers in mind of the great atonement; yet it seems intended also to check cruelty, lest men, being used to shed and feed upon the blood of animals, should grow unfeeling to them, and be less shocked at the idea of shedding human blood. Man must not take away his own life. Our lives are…
Genesis 9:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 9:7
- Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 9:19
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
- Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
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Context
- Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- Genesis 9:8
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas vosotros fructificad, y multiplicaos; procread abundantemente en la tierra, y multiplicaos en ella. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et vous, fructifiez et multipliez; foisonnez sur la terre, et multipliez sur elle. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihr nun, seid fruchtbar und mehret euch, wimmelt auf der Erde und mehret euch auf ihr! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vos autem crescite et multiplicamini, et ingredimini super terram, et implete eam. |