When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her.”

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

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

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

He instructed the servant who was over his household, “Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.