Everyday words
Multiply
Start with Genesis 1:22, where the Bible uses the word multiply in a real sentence: “God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:22
“God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.””
2. Genesis 1:28
“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.””
3. Genesis 3:16
“To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.””
4. Genesis 6:1
“When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,”
5. Genesis 8:17
“Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.””
6. Genesis 9:1
“God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.”
7. Genesis 9:7
“Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.””
8. Genesis 16:10
“Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God“Befruitful,andmultiply,andfillthewatersintheseas,andletbirdsmultiplyontheearth.”