<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="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> made his people very fruitful,p> <p class="poetry">and made them<n id="2" /> more numerous than their<n id="3" /> enemies.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>

<t /><p class="poetry">A shoot will grow out of Jesse&#8217;s<n id="1" /> root stock,p> <p class="poetry">a bud will sprout<n id="2" /> from his roots.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>

The Israelites,<n id="1" /> however,<n id="2" /> were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong,<n id="3" /> so that the land was filled with them.p>

Little by little<n id="1" /> 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<n id="1" /> my covenant with you.

<p class="poetry">Your wife will be like a fruitful vine<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in the inner rooms of your house;p> <p class="poetry">your children<n id="2" /> will be like olive branches,p> <p class="poetry">as they sit all around your table.p>

<p class="poetry">Mourn over the field,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">over the delightful fieldsp> <p class="poetry">and the fruitful vine!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,<n id="1" /> planted by water.p> <p class="poetry">It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.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="poetry">There will be some left behind,p> <p class="poetry">like when an olive tree is beaten &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top,p> <p class="poetry">four or five on its fruitful branches,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>