Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
⛓ Read Genesis 9 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'all those who take the sword will die by the sword' (v52) restates the lex talionis principle 'whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.'
Medium confidence'Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed' — the foundational warrant for human authority to execute lethal justice stands behind 'he does not bear the sword in vain... an avenger for wrath' (v.4).
Medium confidenceBloodshed brings judgment ('whoever sheds man's blood...'); background for 'whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.'
Low confidence'Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed' — the bloodguilt-talion principle behind 'given them blood to drink.' Faint, thematic.
Low confidence