17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”(A)

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God’s Covenant With Noah

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.(A)

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You made them rulers(A) over the works of your hands;(B)
    you put everything under their[a] feet:(C)
all flocks and herds,(D)
    and the animals of the wild,(E)
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,(F)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

16 The highest heavens belong to the Lord,(A)
    but the earth he has given(B) to mankind.

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