The idea of being fruitful through multiplication is in Genesis 1. It's throughout the Torah. It comes up over and over again in the Bible.

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. One of the things we like to do

is one about every five episodes go deep into a passage of the Bible. Maybe you haven't thought of

before that seems to talk about family or multi-generational family. And one of the ones that I've

thought a lot about over the years is Exodus chapter 1. So I want to talk about that there is a

type of enemy of multiplication. So God said to over and over again in the book of Genesis,

be fruitful and multiply, he says it to Adam and Eve, he says it to Noah, he says it over and over again

to the different patriarchs. But then you get to Exodus 1, and an enemy

rises up to stop the multiplication of God's people, and that is the Pharaoh. And if you guys

know a lot about the way the New Testament interprets the Old Testament, a lot of times these characters

become sort of types of spirits. And so there's a spirit in every kind of culture that usually rises up to stamp out

multiplication, because multiplication is a natural part of fruitfulness. So I'm going to read a little bit

about from what Pharaoh did in Exodus chapter 1. It says, now there arose a new king over Egypt who

did not know Joseph, and he said to his people, behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty

for us.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them lest they multiply.

And if war breaks out, they join our enemies.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied,

and the more they spread abroad.

And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

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