14 Bible Verses about Gashing Bodies

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

They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.

Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

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

And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

Samaria shall become a waste, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all in it, and its borders, from Tirzah. Because they did not open, he struck it. He ripped up all its pregnant women.

You shall even drink it and empty it. And you shall break its pieces, and tear off your own breasts. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.