...blessing was attached, for when the scripture says, "Male and female he created them," it continues, 'God blessed them saying, "increase and multiply and fill the earth and dominate it"' (Gn 1:27-28), and so on. Although all of this can be appropriately understood in a spiritual...

...by means of a pronouncement. This is a very oblique reference to the divine injunction in Gen 1:28: "Increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fishes of the sea ..." The appointment of the first human being as king is derived from the final verb. As Jobling (1977,...

...of human history — in the Garden of Eden — God had commanded Adam, the first man, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."...

...creeping thing that creeps on the earth," And God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."...

...universe. In contrast, Christian colonizers sought to fulfill the biblical injunction to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over...

...created him. He created them male and female. And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living things creeping on the earth."...

...exploitation of humans is not. According to Genesis 1:28, at creation God directed humankind to "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."...

...God but by men themselves. Genesis 1:28 ("And God blessed them; and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'")1...

...and over all the earth'" (Gen 1:26). God's initial command to the human race was this: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over" all living things (Gen 1:28). Part of the Psalmist's answer to the question "What is man?" is this:...

...created him, male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply1'' and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the...of the air, and all living creatures that move upon tho earth. 29 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed " " Amces sarkeatso" :...