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 whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye 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 brass; 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 their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath 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 lancets, till 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 furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath 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 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, and cutting himself with stones.