OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 8:17

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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 on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

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Verse 17. Increase. Hebrew “let them increase.” This is spoken of the brute creation, the blessing is given to men. Calmet. 9.—Neither Noe’s family, nor any of the animals, had any young in the ark. Calmet.

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