These who are named above were the leaders of their clans. Their extended families increased greatly in numbers.

You have made the nation larger, ¹  O Lord, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, ²  you have extended all the borders of the land.

The waters completely overwhelmed ¹  the earth, and the ark floated ²  on the surface of the waters.

Little by little ¹  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

And Jesus increased ¹  in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

So the churches were being strengthened in the faith and were increasing in number every day. ¹ 

The more the priests increased in numbers, the more they rebelled against me. They have turned ¹  their glorious calling into a shameful disgrace!

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

By your great skill ¹  in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.

Indeed, ¹  you had little before I arrived, ²  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ³  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁴  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ⁵ 

Increase ¹  your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like ²  the young locust which sheds ³  its skin and flies away.

Now the law came in ¹  so that the transgression ²  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

The Lord ¹  made his people very fruitful, and made them ²  more numerous than their ³  enemies.

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, ¹  the people increased greatly in number ²  in Egypt,

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich ¹  and his wealth multiplies! ² 

The Israelites, ¹  however, ²  were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, ³  so that the land was filled with them.

and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.

In this way Jacob ¹  became extremely prosperous. He owned ²  large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom. ²  Lord, how ³  numerous are my enemies! Many attack me. ⁴ 

I will signal for them and gather them, for I have already redeemed them; then they will become as numerous as they were before.