14 Bible Verses about Mutilation

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,

Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or having a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the Lord, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the Lord.

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison.

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;

I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.

“No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

I wish that those who are troubling you would even mutilate themselves.

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung 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.

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.