Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill 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 generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
Exodus 21:12He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood: as if he had shed blood, so shall he perish from the midst of his people.
Numbers 35:16If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.
Numbers 35:33Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath 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 →