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In [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and some other [[Abrahamic religions]], the '''cultural mandate''' is the divine injunction found in [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 1:28, in which [[God]], after having created the world and all in it, ascribes to humankind the tasks of filling, subduing, and ruling over the earth.<ref>Mare, H.W., 1973. [https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/16/16-3/16-3-pp139-147_JETS.pdf The Cultural Mandate and the New Testament Gospel Imperative]. ''[[Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society]]'', ''16'', pp. 139-47.</ref><ref name="Wagner1998">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73JKAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Cultural+mandate%22&pg=PA12|title=Church Growth and the Whole Gospel: A Biblical Mandate|author=Wagner|first=C. Peter|date=1998|isbn=978-1-57910-201-2|pages=12–|author-link=C. Peter Wagner}}</ref> The cultural mandate includes the sentence "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth." The cultural mandate was given to [[Adam and Eve]].<ref name="Wagner1998" />
In [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] and [[Conservative Judaism]], the mandate to "be fruitful and multiply" is interpreted as requiring every couple to have at least a son and a daughter. Other Jewish groups (such as [[Reform Judaism]]) and individual Jews have interpreted this mandate differently. For example, Richard Friedman in his ''Commentary on the Torah'' (2001) claims that the mandate "be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth" has "been fulfilled."<ref name="Friedman2001">{{cite book |last=Friedman |first=Richard |date=2001 |title=Commentary on the Torah |publisher=Harper}}</ref> The mandate is elaborated upon in numerous parts of the [[Talmud]], for example in [[Kidushin]].
In the interpretation of some denominations of [[Christianity]], adherents should actively work to fulfill the mandate.<ref name="Wagner1998" />
Within Christianity in general, the cultural mandate is most elaborately developed in the West by [[Neo-Calvinism]], which explores the implications for modern, pluralistic society, of this Calvinistic assertion.
==Biblical text==
The text of Genesis 1:28 states:
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וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁהָ וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּבְכָל חַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל הָאָרֶץ <br /> ''Wayəḇāreḵ ’ōṯām [[Elohim|’Ĕlōhîm]], wayyō’mer lāhem ’Ĕlōhîm, "Pərû, ûrəḇû, ûmilə’û ’eṯ-hā’āreṣ, wəḵiḇəšuhā; ûrəḏû biḏəg̱aṯ hayyām, ûḇə‘ôp̱ haššāmayim, ûḇəḵāl-ḥayyāh hārōmeśeṯ ‘al-hā’āreṣ."''
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| [[King James Bible]] || 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.
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== See also ==
* [[Creation mandate]], in Reformed Christianity
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Book of Genesis]]
[[Category:Christian democracy]]
[[Category:Positive Mitzvoth]]
[[Category:Adam and Eve]]
[[Category:Natalism]]
[[Category:Genesis 1]]
In [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] and [[Conservative Judaism]], the mandate to "be fruitful and multiply" is interpreted as requiring every couple to have at least a son and a daughter. Other Jewish groups (such as [[Reform Judaism]]) and individual Jews have interpreted this mandate differently. For example, Richard Friedman in his ''Commentary on the Torah'' (2001) claims that the mandate "be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth" has "been fulfilled."<ref name="Friedman2001">{{cite book |last=Friedman |first=Richard |date=2001 |title=Commentary on the Torah |publisher=Harper}}</ref> The mandate is elaborated upon in numerous parts of the [[Talmud]], for example in [[Kidushin]].
In the interpretation of some denominations of [[Christianity]], adherents should actively work to fulfill the mandate.<ref name="Wagner1998" />
Within Christianity in general, the cultural mandate is most elaborately developed in the West by [[Neo-Calvinism]], which explores the implications for modern, pluralistic society, of this Calvinistic assertion.
==Biblical text==
The text of Genesis 1:28 states:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Version !! Text
|-
| Original [[Hebrew]] ||
וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁהָ וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּבְכָל חַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל הָאָרֶץ <br /> ''Wayəḇāreḵ ’ōṯām [[Elohim|’Ĕlōhîm]], wayyō’mer lāhem ’Ĕlōhîm, "Pərû, ûrəḇû, ûmilə’û ’eṯ-hā’āreṣ, wəḵiḇəšuhā; ûrəḏû biḏəg̱aṯ hayyām, ûḇə‘ôp̱ haššāmayim, ûḇəḵāl-ḥayyāh hārōmeśeṯ ‘al-hā’āreṣ."''
|-
| [[King James Bible]] || 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.
|}
== See also ==
* [[Creation mandate]], in Reformed Christianity
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Book of Genesis]]
[[Category:Christian democracy]]
[[Category:Positive Mitzvoth]]
[[Category:Adam and Eve]]
[[Category:Natalism]]
[[Category:Genesis 1]]