Genesis 9:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

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  • Lev 24:17 : 17 And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.
  • Matt 26:52 : 52 Then Jesus said to him, Put your sword back in its place: for all who take the sword shall perish with the sword.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  • Exod 21:12-14 : 12 He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13 However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee. 14 But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Gen 1:26-27 : 26 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 birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who does evil.
  • Num 35:25 : 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he had fled: and he shall abide in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6 : 5 Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.
  • 1 Kgs 2:28-34 : 28 Then news came to Joab, for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he did not turn after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold of the horns of the altar. 29 And it was told King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of the Lord; and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, strike him down. 30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. And he said, No; but I will die here. And Benaiah told the king this, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. 31 And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father. 32 And the Lord will return his blood upon his own head, who struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing of it: namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. 33 Their blood shall return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his descendants forever; but upon David, and his descendants, and upon his house, and upon his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord. 34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him, and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done this evil in your sight, that you may be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from your face shall I be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth; and it shall come to pass, that anyone who finds me shall slay me.
  • Exod 22:2-3 : 2 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodshed for him. 3 If the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodshed for him, for he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
  • Lev 17:4 : 4 And does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

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  • Lev 24:17-18
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    17 And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

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  • Lev 24:20-21
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    20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

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    19 The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

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    12 He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

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    10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

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  • Ezek 35:6
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    6 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.

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    10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

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    17 A person who does violence to the blood of anyone shall flee to the pit; let no one stop him.

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    26 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 birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

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    30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the testimony of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

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    10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

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    33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

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    12 Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

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    14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.

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    23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

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    27 Whatever soul it is that eats any blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

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