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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 1:22 Catholic Bible: He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/1-22.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/1-22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/1-22.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Chapter 1</a> > Verse 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/1-21.htm" title="Genesis 1:21">◄</a> Genesis 1:22 <a href="../genesis/1-23.htm" title="Genesis 1:23">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/1.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then he gave the living creatures his blessing--he told the ocean creatures to increase and live everywhere in the ocean and the birds to increase everywhere on earth. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/1-28.htm">Genesis 1:28</a> And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/8-17.htm">Genesis 8:17</a> All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/9-1.htm">Genesis 9:1</a> And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/30-27.htm">Genesis 30:27,30</a> Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/35-11.htm">Genesis 35:11</a> And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/26-9.htm">Leviticus 26:9</a> I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/40-15.htm">Job 40:15</a> Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/42-12.htm">Job 42:12</a> And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/107-31.htm">Psalm 107:31,38</a> Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/128-3.htm">Psalm 128:3</a> Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/144-13.htm">Psalm 144:13,14</a> Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/10-22.htm">Proverbs 10:22</a> A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/1.htm">The Fifth Day</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">21</span>And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. <span class="reftext">22</span><span class="highl">And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.</span><span class="reftext">23</span>And the evening and morning were the fifth day.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21</a></span><br />And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/1-23.htm">Genesis 1:23</a></span><br />And the evening and morning were the fifth day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/8-17.htm">Genesis 8:17</a></span><br />All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/revelation/22-14.htm">Blessed</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm">Blesseth</a> <a href="/revelation/22-14.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-8.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/revelation/18-6.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/genesis/1-21.htm">Fowl</a> <a href="/colossians/1-10.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Full</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-18.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/revelation/18-15.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/genesis/1-11.htm">Making</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-14.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Seas</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Water</a> <a href="/genesis/1-21.htm">Waters</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/1-26.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Blessed</a> <a href="/genesis/2-3.htm">Blesseth</a> <a href="/genesis/2-3.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/9-1.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/genesis/1-26.htm">Fowl</a> <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/genesis/3-10.htm">Full</a> <a href="/genesis/3-16.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/genesis/7-17.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/genesis/2-3.htm">Making</a> <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/genesis/49-13.htm">Seas</a> <a href="/genesis/2-6.htm">Water</a> <a href="/genesis/6-17.htm">Waters</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/1-22.htm">Genesis 1:22 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and Be birds blessed earth fill fruitful God in increase let multiply number on said saying seas the them water waters<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/1-22.htm">OT Law: Genesis 1:22 God blessed them saying Be fruitful (Gen. 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