These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. ¹ 

“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded ¹  city is abandoned. Hill ²  and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. ³  Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there. ⁴ 

I will multiply your people ¹  – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, “A wandering ¹  Aramean ²  was my ancestor, ³  and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, ⁴  but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

A king’s glory is ¹  the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects ²  is the ruin ³  of a ruler.

Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem ¹  was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah ²  were also populated?

But as for you, ¹  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

and on to Ebron, ¹  Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon. ² 

But the population ¹  of the city was divided; some ²  sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

And the whole community ¹  of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: ¹  I will multiply their people like sheep. ² 

You are no more secure ¹  than Thebes ²  – she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her ³  rampart ⁴  was the sea, the water ⁵  was her wall.

When humankind ¹  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born ²  to them, ³ 

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

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

Their inheritance must be apportioned ¹  by lot among the larger and smaller groups.

The Lord your God has increased your population ¹  to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ² 

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins. ¹ 

Twelve thousand men and women died ¹  that day, including all the men of Ai.