14 Bible Verses about Mutilation

Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

For none that hath any blemish shall come near: whether he be blind, lame, snoutnosed, or that hath any monstrous member,

whether it be blind, broken, wounded or have a wen, or be mangy or scabbed; see that ye offer no such unto the LORD, nor put an offering of any such 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. And he was made to grind in the prison house.

But Adonibezek fled, and they followed after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Then Adonibezek said, "Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table wherefore as I have done so God hath done to me again." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers. Beware of dissension:

I will put my jealousy upon thee, so that they shall deal cruelly with thee. They shall cut off thy nose and thine ears, and the remnant shall fall through the sword. They shall carry away thy sons and daughters, and the residue shall be burnt in the fire.

None that is gelded, or hath his privy members cut off, shall come into the congregation of the LORD.

I would to God they were separated from you, which trouble you.

Then Adonibezek said, "Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table wherefore as I have done so God hath done to me again." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

But Adonibezek fled, and they followed 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 by the pole in Hebron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

And always both night and day he cried in the mountains and in the graves and beat himself with stones.