Genesis 9:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

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  • Lev 24:17 : 17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
  • Matt 26:52 : 52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 If anyone has captivity, he will go. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed.{TR reads "If anyone leads into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with a sword." instead of "If anyone has captivity, he goes away. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed."} Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
  • Exod 21:12-14 : 12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Gen 1:26-27 : 26 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 sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, 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 God's likeness.
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
  • Num 35:25 : 25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein 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, even 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 sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
  • 1 Kgs 2:28-34 : 28 The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29 It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him. 30 Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I will die here. Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. 31 The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. 33 So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yahweh. 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
  • Exod 22:2-3 : 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. 3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
  • Lev 17:4 : 4 and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: 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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  • Gen 9:4-5
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    4 But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.

    5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

  • Lev 24:17-18
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    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

    18 He who strikes a animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

  • Lev 24:20-21
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    20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • 7 Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

  • Gen 4:14-15
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    14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

    15 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

  • 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

  • 12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Gen 4:10-11
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    10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

    11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

  • 6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

  • 10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26 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 sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • 21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

  • 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • 21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Num 35:30-31
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    30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

    31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 17:10-11
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    10 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

    11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

  • 9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • 6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

  • 4 and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  • 33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

  • 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off."

  • 23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

  • 27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • Num 35:16-17
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    16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • 9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

  • 19 It shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him.

  • 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

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    15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

    16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

  • 7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

  • 21 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

  • 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.