²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,^(A) and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls^[a] on the earth.”

¹² But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread^[a] the Israelites.