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Bible in Basic English
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Holman Bible
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
International Standard Version
Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it."
A Conservative Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.
American Standard Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Amplified
“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
Darby Translation
And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.
Julia Smith Translation
And you, be ye fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it
King James 2000
And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it."
Modern King James verseion
And you be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein."
NET Bible
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it."
New Heart English Bible
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
The Emphasized Bible
Ye, therefore, be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth and multiply therein.
Webster
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
World English Bible
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
Youngs Literal Translation
And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'
Interlinear
Parah
Rabah
רבה
Rabah
multiply, increase, much, many, more, great, long, store, exceedingly, greater, abundance,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 9:7
Prayers for Genesis 9:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant With Noah
6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image. 7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number. 8 And God said to Noah and to his sons,
Cross References
Genesis 9:1
And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
Genesis 8:17
Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.
Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.