Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.
Darby Translation
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 ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
Exodus 21:12He that striketh a man, so that he die, shall certainly be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4and doth not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to Jehovah, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood shall be reckoned unto that man: he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people,
Numbers 35:16And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.
Numbers 35:33And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that 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 →