Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

The Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

A shoot will grow out of Jesse’s root stock, a bud will sprout from his roots.

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

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

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

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten – two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the Lord God of Israel.