Genesis 1:22

22 Then God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the water of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

Genesis 1:22 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 1:22

And God blessed them
With a power to procreate their kind, and continue their species, as it is interpreted in the next clause; saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas:
and these creatures do multiply exceedingly, and vast quantities there are of them in the mighty waters, though the consumption of some sorts of them is very great. Our English word "fish" is derived from the Hebrew word (vwp) , "fush", which signifies to multiply and increase: and let fowl multiply in the earth;
as they did, and continue to do to this day.

Genesis 1:22 In-Context

20 God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open dome of the sky."

21 God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that creeps, so that the water swarmed with all kinds of them, and there was every kind of winged bird; and God saw that it was good.

22 Then God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the water of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

23 So there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature -each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast"; and that is how it was.