<p class="poetry">Joseph is a fruitful bough,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a fruitful bough near a springp> <p class="poetry">whose branches<n id="2" /> climb over the wall.p>

<p class="bodytext">But as for you,<n id="1" /> be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.&#8221;p>

I will make you<n id="1" /> extremely<n id="2" /> fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.<n id="3" />

May the sovereign God<n id="1" /> bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants!<n id="2" /> Then you will become<n id="3" /> a large nation.<n id="4" />

He named the second child Ephraim,<n id="1" /> saying,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Certainly<n id="3" /> God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">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.p>

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" />

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

As for Ishmael, I have heard you.<n id="1" /> I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants.<n id="2" /> He will become the father of twelve princes;<n id="3" /> I will make him into a great nation.

Then God said to him, &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="1" /> Be fruitful and multiply! A nation &#8211; even a company of nations &#8211; will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!<n id="2" />

He said to me, &#8216;I am going to make you fruitful<n id="1" /> and will multiply you.<n id="2" /> I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants<n id="3" /> as an everlasting possession.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<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" />

Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out<n id="1" /> every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase<n id="2" /> and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac<n id="1" /> named it<n id="2" /> Rehoboth,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;For now the <sc>Lordsc> has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.&#8221;p>