0 What The Bible says about Amputation

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16

Amputation

A woman's hand must be amputated if she touches a man's genitals.

When men strive together onewith another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. Deuteronomy 25:11-12

Amputate the thumbs and big toes of prisoners of war.

The LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. ... But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Judges 1:4-6

Sometimes God causes noses and ears to be amputated and forces women to pluck off their own breasts.

And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears. ... Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt ... pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 23:25, 34

If your eye or hand cause you to sin, cut if off, pluck it out.

If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29-30

(See also Matthew 18:8-9 and Mark 9:43-47)

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