Genesis 9:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."

New Living Translation
Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”

English Standard Version
And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

Berean Study Bible
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

New American Standard Bible
“As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

NASB 1995
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."

NASB 1977
“And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

Amplified Bible
“As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

Christian Standard Bible
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it."

Contemporary English Version
I want you and your descendants to have many children, so people will live everywhere on earth.

Good News Translation
"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Be fertile, and increase in number. Spread over the earth, and increase."

International Standard Version
Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it."

NET Bible
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

New King James Version
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”

King James 2000 Bible
And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

New Heart English Bible
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly on the earth, and subdue it."

World English Bible
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

American King James Version
And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

American Standard Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

A Faithful Version
And you, be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it."

Darby Bible Translation
And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

English Revised Version
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Webster's Bible Translation
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
As for you, be ye frutefull, and increase, and be occupied vpon the earth, that ye maye multiplye therin.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
See that ye encrease and waxe and be occupyde vppon the erth and multiplye therein.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”

Young's Literal Translation
And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And you, be ye fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you, be fruitful and multiply and reproduce in the earth and multiply in it.”

Lamsa Bible
As for you, be fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But do ye increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over it.
















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