Is the case where a woman is the victim of such bloodshed, is it still an offense against God? The answer would appear to be yes. God issued the commandment in Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill” That means man or woman, adult, child, or infant. She like the man in the beginning had a living soul (Breath of Life inherited through a rib of Adam, Genesis 2:7 & Genesis 2:21-2:22) corrupted though it has been in the fall, and her soul resides at least temporally in her body. Thereby, a woman is also a created human being as is the man, created by God and his providence as a human being who bears in her flesh, her physicality a compliment image to man's image. It is intrinsically obvious that humanity is the highest form of all living creatures, and that the taking of a human life, man or woman is a greater offense against God and his creation then the slaying of any other form of life. The woman's image i not thereby an arbitrary characteristic, it is just that the direct physical symbolism between God and that particular gender of humanity is not present as it is in the case of man, and as such there are implications.

Absent of new covenant theology, it is thus the case according to Genesis 9:6 that harm to her flesh thus in degree as ordained by God and known by God must be a less significant offense against God himself, though it be deemed at least equivocally egregious a crime against humanity. In the case where there is symbolic reference to God himself in play as in the case where the flesh symbolically represents God in his image, and a high crime is committed against God in it. Also, one reasons that the inherentt value of a human being to God resides more so in the soul than in the flesh which seems to be much more valuable to God (Genesis 3:19 “… for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” and Psalm 49:8 “For the redemption of their soul is precious ...”) than the physical bodies of a broken humanity in a broken world. Also, it is unlikely to ascertain that damage done to a soul is even possible through the destruction of the flesh, that without Christ's atonement all souls are already corrupted, and thus unacceptable in and of themselves before a Perfect and Holy God (Psalm 49:7-8).

What the exact weight of this particular offense, homicide, is in on a divine scale in the slaying of a human being where God's Image is not symbolically present in material form the body, as in the slaying of a woman unreconciled to God where the body is not sanctified as Holy through Jesus Christ, God himself knows the weight of that offense, since God is not arbitrary and irrational, but he exists as a realistic tangible, definitive, and rational Supreme Being. The Bible clearly indicates that God considers the soul more important than the body. It would stand to reason that if the woman victim were someone who belongs to God, a Christian who by definition belongs to Jesus Christ, then the infraction committed against that soul and likewise the body as well which is sanctified as the temple of the Lord (John 2:21 and 1 Corinthians 6:15). not as a material image but as a vessel purified in a spiritual transaction, one might then conclude that the divine offense of that particular crime would take either precedence over or equivalent or some near equivalent value as to what is alluded to in Genesis 9:6. Speculatively it seems at least according to Biblical precedent, God would be as likely to carry out such an equivalent form of justice against the perpetrator as well. It is God's prerogative how he will judge the world in righteousness, and one imagines that it is known absolutely by none other then God himself alone until the day of judgment arrives and the books are opened, and everything is revealed. God reigns over the world in righteousness, and God sets forth all his decrees and enacts them justly.