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.
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Genesis 1:22
Genesis 1:22
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