“But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
Genesis 9:7 (BSB)
Context Reading
5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: 6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind. 7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.” 8Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, 9“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,