And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28
Be fruitful and multiply. Is this a command or a blessing? Perhaps it is both.
Subdue the earth and have dominion over it. Perhaps this too is both command and blessing.