Genesis 9:6
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
Bible in Basic English
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 now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
Exodus 21:12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:
Numbers 35:16But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
Numbers 35:33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of 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 →