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

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

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.

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.’

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.”

Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”