Bible: Gen. 1:28; 9:1,7

1:28 God blessed 1  them and said 2  to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! 3  Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.” 4 

God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

9:7 But as for you, 1  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

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