17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and ^jbe fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, ^q“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and ⁱmultiply him greatly. He ^jshall father twelve princes, and ^kI will make him into a great nation.

3 ^jGod Almighty¹ bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

11 And God said to him, ^o“I am God Almighty:¹ be ^pfruitful and multiply. ^qA nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.²