And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
WEB
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
YLT
And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'
DBT
And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)