22God blessed them, saying, |Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.|


In Context

19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 God said, |Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.|

21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

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

23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, |Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;| and it was so.

Genesis 1:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:22God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:22And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blesseth them, saying, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.