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 LORD.

For whatever man he is who has a blemish, he shall not approach: [not] a blind man, or a lame [man], or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous,

Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a skin tumor, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these to LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to LORD.

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 grinding 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, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [scraps] under my table. As I have done, so God has 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 workmen, beware of the excision.

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 shal

He who is wounded in the testicles, or has his private part cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of LORD.

O that those who trouble you would even cut it all off.

And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [scraps] under my table. As I have done, so God has 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 killed 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 mountains and in the sepulchers, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.