Genesis 9:1
Modern Translations
New International Version
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

New Living Translation
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

English Standard Version
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Berean Study Bible
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

New American Standard Bible
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

NASB 1995
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

NASB 1977
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Amplified Bible
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Contemporary English Version
God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.

Good News Translation
God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fertile, increase in number, and fill the earth.

International Standard Version
God blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, "Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth.

NET Bible
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

New King James Version
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

King James 2000 Bible
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

New Heart English Bible
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

World English Bible
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

American King James Version
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

American Standard Version
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

A Faithful Version
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

English Revised Version
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And God blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And God blessed Noe and his sonnes, and sayde vnto them: increace & multiplye, and fyll the earth.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And God blessed Noe and his sonnes and sayd vnto them: Increase and multiplye and fyll the erth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

Young's Literal Translation
And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

Smith's Literal Translation
And God will praise Noah and his sons, and will say to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And God blessed Noah and his children and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.

Lamsa Bible
AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.
















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