Check out these multiplication highlights from each of the 50 chapters of Genesis. I think God wants us to multiply!

1. The First Command – Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it
2. Man Multiplies – And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman
3. Hard to Multiply and be Fruitful – I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing…. cursed is the ground because of you
4. Fathers Multiplying – I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord…. Adah… was the father of those who dwell in tents….
5. Children Multiplying – he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image…. he had other sons and daughters [9x]
6. Corrupt Multiplication – When man began to multiply on the face of the land…. the earth was filled with violence
7. New Multiplication Plan – male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth
8. Multiplying Again – that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth
9. Blessed to Multiply – And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth”
10. Multiplication is Working – These are the clans of the sons of Noah… and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth
11. Trying not to Fill the Earth – So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth
12. Blessed to Multiply – I will bless you and make your name great… and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed
13. Promised Multiplication – I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth
14. Beginning to Multiply – he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them
15. Promised Multiplication – “Look toward heaven, and number the stars.…” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
16. Multiplying Hagar – I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude
17. Promised Multiplication – you shall be the father of a multitude of nations…. I will make you exceedingly fruitful
18. Abraham will Multiply – Abraham shall surely become a great… nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him
19. Desperate to Multiply – Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring
20. Barrenness as Punishment – For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah
21. Hagar’s Multiplication – I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring
22. Multiplication is Reward – because you have done this… I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven
23. Receiving the Land – its whole area, was made over to Abraham as a possession
24. Multiplication as a Blessing – Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands
25. Value of Birthright – Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now….” Thus Esau despised his birthright.
26. Promise to Multiply – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give… all these lands
27. Birthright and Blessing – He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing
28. Blessed to Multiply – God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you
29. Open Womb and Barrenness – When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren
30. Barren is a Reproach – God listened to her and opened her womb…. God has taken away my reproach
31. Returning to Multiply – Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you
32. Promised Multiplication – I will… make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude
33. Receiving Multiplication – “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant”
34. Wrongful Multiplication – Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
35. Blessed to Multiply – I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you
36. Esau Multiplying – These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir
37. Jacob Multiplying – Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings…. These are the generations of Jacob
38. Duty to Multiply – Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law… raise up offspring for your brother
39. Blessing Others – the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was on… house and field
40. Multiplication Dream – As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes
41. Filling the Earth – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
42. Jacob’s Sons – We are twelve brothers, sons of our father
43. Jacob’s Sons – And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved
44. Jacob’s Sons – We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age… and his father loves him
45. Jacob’s Grandchildren – you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children
46. Promise to Multiply – Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation
47. Israel Multiplying – Israel settled in the land of Egypt… and were fruitful and multiplied greatly
48. Promise to Multiply – Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you… his offspring shall become a multitude to nations
49. Blessed to be Fruitful – Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall
50. Seeing Multiplication – And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation