14 Bible Verses about Mutilation

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

For whatsoever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or lame, or he that has a marred face, or any limb too long,

Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a discharge, or an itching disease, or scabs, you shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did 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, Threescore and ten 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 there he died.

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

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

And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors shall be devoured by the fire.

He that is a eunuch by crushing or mutilation shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

I would they were even cut off who trouble you.

And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten 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 there he died.

But Adonibezek 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 over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulcher of Abner in Hebron.

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