For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.