Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth the blood of man, by witnesses, upon the sentence of the judges, his blood shall be shed; because in the image of the Lord made He man.
Targum Onkelos
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, spread abroad and multiply; bring forth in the earth and multiply therein.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And the Lord created the Adam in His image, in the image of the Lord He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that the Lord God created man, in the resemblance of Elohim He made him;
Exodus 21:12Whosoever striketh a man and killeth him, being killed he shall be killed.
Leviticus 17:4and bring it not to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, that it may be offered an oblation in the presence of the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, blood shall be reckoned to that man; he hath shed blood, and that man shall be destroyed from his people.
Numbers 35:16But if he hath smitten him with a weapon of iron and killed him, he is a murderer; and the murderer is to be surely put to death.
Numbers 35:33But you shall not make guilty the land in which you are; for blood maketh the land guilty; and the land is not expiated for innocent blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him 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 →