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blessed them
"blessed the animals that he had made"
Be fruitful and multiply
This is God's blessing. He told the sea animals to produce more sea animals like themselves, so that there would be many of them in the seas. The word "multiply" explains how they are to be "fruitful." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
multiply
increase greatly in number
Let birds multiply
This is a command. By commanding that birds should multiply, God made birds multiply. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-imperative)
birds
"animals that fly" or "flying things." See how you translated this in Genesis 1:20.