Genesis 9:6
4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- KJV
- Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- WEB
- Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
- ASV
- Whoso sheddeth man`s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.
- DARBY
- Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.
- BLB
- Whoever sheds the blood of the man, by the man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He has made the man.
- ÅB
- Den som utøser menneskets blod, ved mennesket skal hans blod utøses; for i Guds bilde skapte han[^1] mennesket.
- OTB
- Den som utøser menneskeblod, ved mennesker skal hans blod utøses; for i Guds bilde skapte han mennesket.
- B1930
- Den som utøser menneskets blod, ved mennesket skal hans blod utøses; for i Guds billede skapte han mennesket. / < Gud.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 24:17
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Read in contextMatthew 26:52
“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
Read in contextRevelation 13:10
“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
Read in contextExodus 21:12–14
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
Read in contextNumbers 35:33
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Read in contextGenesis 1:26–27
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Read in contextJames 3:9
With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
Read in contextGenesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
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