Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
In Context
7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God he made him,
Exodus 21:12He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4and has not brought it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation to LORD before the tabernacle of LORD, blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people
Numbers 35:16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8
Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →