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| Blessings in a Fallen World, Part 1 | What does "blessing" or "blessed" mean? The first use of this term is in Genesis 1:22 and 1:28, when God blessed the animals and man. "Be fruitful, and multiply" immediately follows both uses of the phrase "God blessed them." Hence, bearing offspring is |
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| John Gill | 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 |