Genesis 9:6
Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
Catholic Public Domain 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
7But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the lineage of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
Exodus 21:12Whoever strikes a man, intending to murder, shall be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4and not have presented it as an oblation to the Lord at the door of the tabernacle, he shall be guilty of blood. It is just as if he had shed blood; so then, he shall perish from the midst of his people.
Numbers 35:16If anyone will have struck someone with iron, and he who was struck will have died, then he shall be guilty of homicide, and he himself shall die.
Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land of your habitation, so as to stain it with the blood of the innocent; neither is it able to be expiated in any way other than by the blood of him who has shed the blood of another.
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 →