14 Bible Verses about Gashing Bodies

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.

They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.

"You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?

eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.

"For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women."

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts;for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.