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NASB | Genesis 1:28 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." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth." |
Bible Question: My KJV says that God commanded that man replenish the earth.The same command is given to Noah: see Gen 9:1.Replenish implies that there was something to replenish ie to replace.In the case of the flood that is easily understood,but what about Gen 1:28? What was before man to replenish? |
Bible Answer: I looked up replensih on dictionary.com and one of the definitions is "add a new stock or supply to" and the other is "to inspire or nourish." These are in addition to the definition you stated. I don't think the use of this word necessarily means anything was there before. It would be interesting to see other translations of the original Hebrew/Greek to get a better feel for things. |