<p class="bodytext">When the time came for Rebekah to give birth,<n id="1" /> there were<n id="2" /> twins in her womb.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.<n id="1" /> The Egyptians mourned<n id="2" /> for him seventy days.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The earth was ruined<n id="1" /> in the sight of<n id="2" /> God; the earth was filled with violence.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Finally Jacob said<n id="1" /> to Laban, &#8220;Give me my wife, for my time of service is up.<n id="2" /> I want to have marital relations with her.&#8221;<n id="3" />

God blessed them<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.&#8221;<n id="2" />

So God said<n id="1" /> to Noah, &#8220;I have decided that all living creatures must die,<n id="2" /> for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy<n id="3" /> them and the earth.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water.<n id="1" /> She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.p>

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her.<n id="1" /> She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up<n id="1" /> all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.p>

Complete my older daughter&#8217;s bridal week.<n id="1" /> Then we will give you the younger one<n id="2" /> too, in exchange for seven more years of work.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Jacob did as Laban said.<n id="1" /> When Jacob<n id="2" /> completed Leah&#8217;s bridal week,<n id="3" /> Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph gave orders to fill<n id="1" /> their bags with grain, to return each man&#8217;s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God blessed<n id="1" /> them and said<n id="2" /> to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it!<n id="3" /> Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">He instructed the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man&#8217;s money in the mouth of his sack.