Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.
Free Bible 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
7Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
Cross References
Genesis 1:27So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.
Genesis 5:1This is the record of Adam's descendants. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him.
Exodus 21:12Anyone who hits and kills someone else must be executed.
Leviticus 17:4instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord there, that person shall be held guilty of illegal killing. They have shed blood and must be expelled from their people.
Numbers 35:16But if anyone deliberately hits someone with something made of iron and kills them, that person is a murderer and must be executed.
Numbers 35:33Don't pollute the land where you live because bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land where blood is shed can't be purified except by the blood of the one 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 →