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 the LORD.

For no man in whom there is a blemish, shall approach: a blind man or a lame or he that lacks any thing or has any thing superfluous

Blind or broken or maimed or having a running sore or scurvy or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering on fire of them upon the altar of the LORD.

But the Philistines took hold of him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of iron that he should grind in the prison house.

But Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered crumbs under my table; as I have done, so God has recompensed me. And they put him into Jerusalem, and there he died.

And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets until the blood gushed out upon them.

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

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

He that is wounded in the stones or is castrated shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

I even desire that those who trouble you would cut themselves off.

And Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered crumbs under my table; as I have done, so God has recompensed me. And they put him into Jerusalem, and there he died.

But Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Then David commanded his young men, and they slew them and cut off their hands and their feet and hung them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

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