⁴ This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

²⁸ And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

¹ And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

² and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea -- into your hand they have been given.

³ Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

⁹ (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.

⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

¹⁶ The heavens -- the heavens `are' Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,