“But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.”
“Vos autem crescite et multiplicamini, et ingredimini super terram, et implete eam.”
“And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”
“But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.””
“Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.””
“And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”
Verses 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 God's, and we must only give them up when he pleases. If we in any way hasten our own death, we are accountable to God for it. When God requires the life of a man from him that took it away unjustly, the murderer cannot render that, and therefore must render his own instead. One time or other, in this world or in the next, God will discover murders, and punish those murders which are beyond man's power to punish. But there are those who are ministers of God to protect the innocent, by being a terror to evil-doers, and they must not bear the sword in vain, ( Romans 13:4 ) . Wilful murder ought always to be punished with death. To this law there is a reason added. Such remains of God's image are still upon fallen man, that he who unjustly kills a man, defaces the image of God, and does dishonour to him.
“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.”
“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.”
“And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.”
“These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.”