“And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.”
“Benedixitque Deus Noë et filiis ejus. Et dixit ad eos : Crescite, et multiplicamini, et replete terram.”
“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
“And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.”
“God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.”
“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
Cross references: : Gen. 2:28 ; Gen. 8:17 God increased them with fruit, and declared unto them his counsel as touching the replenishing of the earth.
Cross references: : Gen. 2:28 ; Gen. 8:17 God increased them with fruit, and declared unto them his counsel as touching the replenishing of the earth.
Cross references: : Gen. 2:28 ; Gen. 8:17 God increased them with fruit, and declared unto them his counsel as touching the replenishing of the earth.
Blessed, with fecundity. Barrenness was deemed a curse. (Calmet)
1. A grant of lands of vast extent, and a promise of a great increase of men to occupy and enjoy them. The first blessing is here renewed: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth (v. 1), and repeated (v. 7), for the race of mankind was, as it were, to begin again. Now, (1.) God sets the whole earth before them, tells them it is all their own, while it remains, to them and their heirs. Note, The earth God has given to the children of men, for a possession and habitation, Ps 115 16. Though it is not a paradise, but a wilderness rather; yet it is better than we deserve. Blessed be God, it is not hell. (2.) He gives them a blessing, by the force and virtue of which mankind should be both multiplied and perpetuated upon earth, so that in a little time all the habitable parts of the earth should be more or less inhabited; and, though one generation should pass away, yet another generation should come, while the world stands, so that the stream of the human race should be supplied with a constant succession, and run parallel with the current of time, till both should be delivered up together into the ocean of eternity. Though death should still reign, and the Lord would still be known by his judgments, yet the earth should never again be dispeopled as now it was, but still replenished, Acts 17 24-26.
Verses 1-3 The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their flesh affords. Nor ought we to be less thankful for the security we enjoy from the savage and hurtful beasts, through the fear of man which God has fixed deep in them. We see the fulfilment of this promise every day, and on every side. This grant of the animals for food fully warrants the use of them, but not the abuse of them by gluttony, still less by cruelty. We ought not to pain them needlessly whilst they live, nor when we take away their lives.
“And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.”
“And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.”
“And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
“All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.”
“But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.”
“These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.”
“These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.”