Genesis 9:6
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 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.
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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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 he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Read in contextMatthew 26:52
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Read in contextRevelation 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.
Read in contextExodus 21:12–14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Read in contextNumbers 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.
Read in contextGenesis 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.
Read in contextJames 3:9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Read in contextGenesis 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;
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