Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, 1 for it was in the image of God that he made man.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
7As for you, be fruitful and multiply, spread throughout the earth and multiply on it.”
Cross References
Genesis 1:27God created man in his own image. In his own image he created him. Male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:1This is the record of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness.
Exodus 21:12Whoever strikes a man so that he dies, that person must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 17:4if he does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a sacrifice to Yahweh before his tabernacle, that man is guilty of bloodshed. He has shed blood, and that man must be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 35:16But if an accused man has struck his victim with an instrument of iron, and if his victim dies, then the accused is indeed a murderer. He must certainly be put to death.
Numbers 35:33Do not pollute in this way the land where you live, because blood from murder pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land when blood has been shed on it, 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 →