Genesis 9:6
I made people to be like myself in many ways. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, because he killed someone who is like me.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Genesis 1:27So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female.
Genesis 5:1Here is a list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he caused them to be like him in many ways.
Exodus 21:12You must execute anyone who strikes another person with the result that the person who is struck dies.
Leviticus 17:4If you slaughter it to be a sacrifice anywhere else in the camp or outside the camp, you will be guilty of killing an animal in an unacceptable place. As a result you will no longer be allowed to be/associate with my people.
Numbers 35:16“But you must consider that anyone who kills another person with an iron weapon or with a big rock or with a piece of wood, is a murderer, and the one who killed the other person must be executed.
Numbers 35:33“You must execute people who truly murder others. If you did not do that, you would be causing the people who live in the land to become unacceptable to me. Anyone who deliberately kills an innocent person must be executed.
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 →