Cross references

Genesis 8:17

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

Genesis 8:17 BSB

Genesis 8:17 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 1:22 (7 votes) and Genesis 9:1 (4 votes). 13 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Genesis 1 to Hebrews 1.

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Which verses does Genesis 8:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

  2. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

  3. He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.

  4. “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast. Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

  5. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

  6. they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

  7. But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

  8. Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields. Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

Which verses point to Genesis 8:17?

The 10 strongest of 13.