The book of Matthew provides us with one of the most familiar accounts in the Bible of the birth and infancy of Jesus: Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, ...

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 ...