Verse List for GEN 1:22

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OET (OET-RV) and he blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

OET-LV And_he/it _blessed god DOM_them to_say be _fruitful and_increase/multiply and_fill DOM the_waters in _the_seas and_the_bird let _it _multiply on _the_earth.

ULT Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

UST Then he blessed them all by saying to them, “You water animals must have many young so that you increase greatly in number and live all over the place in the ocean. You birds must also increase greatly in number all over the earth.”

BSB & MSB Then God blessed them [and] said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

OEB He blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, ⇔  increase, fill the oceans, ⇔  and let the birds increase on the land.’

WEBBE & WMBB God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

NET God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

LSV And God blesses them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the bird multiply in the earth”:

FBV God blessed them and said, “Reproduce and increase, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

T4T God blessed them. He said, “Produce offspring and become very numerous. I want the creatures in the water to live in all the oceans, and birds also to become very numerous.” And that is what happened.

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

BBE And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

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

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

DRA And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.

YLT And God blesseth them, saying, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

Drby And [fn]God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.

RV And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
(And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl/bird multiply in the earth.)

SLT And God will praise them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and birds shall multiply in the earth.

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

KJB-1769 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
(And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl/bird multiply in the earth.)

KJB-1611 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and fill the waters in the Seas, and let foule multiply in the earth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

Bshps And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.
(And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fill the waters of the sea, and let fowl/bird multiply in the earth.)

Gnva Then God blessed them, saying, Bring foorth fruite and multiplie, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the foule multiplie in the earth.
(Then God blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiplie, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl/bird multiply in the earth.)

Cvdl and blessed them, sayenge: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sees, and let the foules multiplie vpon the earth.
(and blessed them, saying: Growe, and multiplie, and fill the waters of the sees, and let the fowls/birds multiply upon the earth.)

Wycl and blesside hem, and seide, Wexe ye, and be ye multiplied, and fille ye the watris of the see, and briddis be multiplied on erthe.
(and blessed hem, and said, Wexe ye/you_all, and be ye/you_all multiplied, and fill ye/you_all the waters of the sea, and birds be multiplied on earth.)

Luth Und GOtt segnete sie und sprach: Seid fruchtbar und mehret euch und erfüllet das Wasser im Meer; und das Gevögel mehre sich auf Erden.
(And God blessed they/she/them and spoke: Are/Be fertile/fruitful and more you and fulfilled the water in_the sea; and the Gevögel several itself/yourself/themselves on/in/to earth/land/ground.)

ClVg Benedixitque eis, dicens: Crescite, et multiplicamini, et replete aquas maris: avesque multiplicentur super terram.[fn]
(Welland_said to_them, saying: Crescite, and multiplicamini, and replete waters of_the_sea: birdsque multiplicentur over the_earth/land.)

UHB וַ⁠יְבָ֧רֶךְ אֹתָ֛⁠ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵ⁠אמֹ֑ר פְּר֣וּ וּ⁠רְב֗וּ וּ⁠מִלְא֤וּ אֶת־הַ⁠מַּ֨יִם֙ בַּ⁠יַּמִּ֔ים וְ⁠הָ⁠ע֖וֹף יִ֥רֶב בָּ⁠אָֽרֶץ׃ ‡

BrLXX Καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτὰ ὁ Θεὸς, λέγων, αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε, καὶ πληρώσατε τὰ ὕδατα ἐν ταῖς θαλάσσαις, καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ πληθυνέσθωσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

BrTr And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth.