Genesis 9:6
Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
7But bring ye forth fruite and multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.
Genesis 5:1This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,
Exodus 21:12He that smiteth a man, and he die, shall dye the death.
Leviticus 17:4And bringeth it not vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation to offer an offring vnto the Lord before the Tabernacle of the Lord, blood shalbe imputed vnto that man: he hath shed blood, wherefore that man shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 35:16And if one smite another with an instrument of yron that hee die, hee is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.
Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye shall dwell: for blood defileth the land: and the land cannot be clensed of 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 →