‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
“‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground’” (Gen. 1:28).
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Could anyone answer the following questions?
- What does "befruitful and increase in number" refer to? What is the subject?
- How to fill the earth? How to subdue it? I mean whether there is anything to fill the earth? Whatis the subject?
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iclearwater What does "be fruitful and increase in number" refer to? What is the subject? It is an imperative sentence; the subject is the understood 'you', which refers of course to Adam and Eve.
- iclearwater What does "be fruitful and increase in number" refer to?
- What is the subject?
- It is an imperative sentence; the subject is the understood 'you', which refers of course to Adam and Eve.
- iclearwater How to fill the earth?
- = have lots of babies iclearwater How to subdue it?
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iclearwater What does "be fruitful and increase in number" refer to? What is the subject?
It is an imperative sentence; the subject is the understood 'you', which refers of course to Adam and Eve.
iclearwater How to fill the earth?
= have lots of babies
iclearwaterHow to subdue it?
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