Genesis 9:6 · KJV
“Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”
— Genesis 9:6
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis 9 — Context
But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 24:17
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. {killeth...: Heb. smiteth the life of a man}
Matthew 26:52
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
Revelation 13:10
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye {are}: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. {the land cannot...: Heb. there can be no expiation for the land}
Exodus 21:12-14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Genesis 1:26-27
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
James 3:9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Genesis 5:1
This {is} the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;