Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;
Exodus 21:12He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to present it as an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 35:16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is 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 →