Genesis 9:7 (BSB)

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

From Genesis 9. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 9:7

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 9:7: 7. And you , be ye fruitful and multiply . He again turns his discourse to Noah and his sons, exhorting them to the propagation of offspring: as if he would say, ‘You see that I am intent upon cherishing and preserving mankind, do you therefore also attend to it.’ At the same time, in commending to them the preservation of seed, he deters them...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7: We read, in the close of the foregoing chapter, the very kind things which God said in his heart, concerning the remnant of mankind which was now left to be the seed of a new world. Now here we have these kind things spoken to them.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 9:7: And you, be ye fruitful and multiply,.... Instead of taking away the lives of men, the great concern should be to multiply them; and this indeed is one reason of the above law, to prevent the decrease and ruin of mankind; and which was peculiarly needful, when there were so few men in the world as only four, and therefore it is repeated in stronger...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Genesis 9:3-7: Gen 9:3-7 “Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green of the herb have I given you all (את־כּל = חכּל).” These words do not affirm that man then first began to eat animal food, but only that God then for the first time authorized, or allowed him to do, what probably he had previously done in opposition to His will.