Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Webster 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
7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him:
Exodus 21:12He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall be surely put to death.
Leviticus 17:4And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed to that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
Numbers 35:16And if he shall smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he shall die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are : for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, 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 →