Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
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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
7Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.” (5)
Cross References
Genesis 1:27God created man in his own likeness. + 1:27. Quoted in James 3:9 In God’s image he created him; zachar ·male· and n'keivah ·female· + 1:27. Quoted in Matt 19:4; Mark 10:6 he created them.
Genesis 5:1This is + 5:1. MPr: King Messiah will not come till all souls predestined for it have appeared in human bodies on earth. (Gen 5:1 in Midrash 24). (Rom 11:25) the book of the generations of Adam [Human, Red earth]. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
Exodus 21:12“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, + 21:12. Paraphrase Quoted in Matt 5:21, Matt 15:4
Leviticus 17:4and has not brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Adonai before Adonai’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 35:16“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. + 35:16 Context of Matt 5:21
Numbers 35:33“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, 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 →