Genesis 1:22 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
Genesis 1:22 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Genesis 1:22 in 7 Bible Translations
Read Genesis 1:22 in the King James Version (KJV) and 6 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Genesis 1:22 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.””
Genesis 1:22 — World English Bible
Genesis 1:22 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:22 — American Standard Version
Genesis 1:22 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'”
Genesis 1:22 — Young's Literal Translation
Genesis 1:22 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:22 — Darby Translation
Genesis 1:22 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Then God blessed them, saying, Bring foorth fruite and multiplie, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the foule multiplie in the earth.”
Genesis 1:22 — Geneva Bible
Genesis 1:22 LS — The Living Sword (2024)
“And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."”
Genesis 1:22 — The Living Sword
Genesis 1:22 in Context — Genesis 1
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
What Does Genesis 1:22 Mean?
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