Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

New Heart English 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

5I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

7Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. 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,

Leviticus 17:4and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, [so as to sacrifice it for a burnt offering or peace offering to the Lord to be acceptable for a soothing aroma, and whoever shall kill it without, and shall not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting] to offer it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, 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.

Numbers 35:33"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the 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 →

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