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Genesis 1:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” "
Genesis 1:28
Verse in Context
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26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
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Genesis 1:1
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:2
"The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters."
Genesis 1:3
"God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light."
Genesis 1:4
"God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness."
Genesis 1:5
"God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day."
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"God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”"
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