14 Bible Verses about Mutilation

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or anything superfluous,

Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Jehovah.

And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:

And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.