Genesis 9:6
Good News Translation
Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.

New American Bible
Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

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Exodus 21:12-14 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death. . . .

Exodus 22:2,3 If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood. . . .

Leviticus 17:4 And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood. As if he had shed blood, so shall he perish from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 24:17 He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Numbers 35:25 The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

1 Kings 2:5,6,28-34 Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me, what he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. . . .

Matthew 26:52 Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Romans 13:4 For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.

Revelation 13:10 He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

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Genesis 1:26,27 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. . . .

Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Psalm 51:4 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

James 3:9 By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God.

Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
5For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. 6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.7But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

1 Corinthians 11:7
The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

Revelation 13:10
He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:27
And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.

Genesis 42:22
And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 21:12
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17
He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Numbers 35:33
Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

Deuteronomy 5:17
Thou shalt not kill.

Judges 9:56
And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

2 Kings 11:16
And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.

Proverbs 28:17
A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Ecclesiastes 3:3
A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.

Genesis 9:5
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