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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:5
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a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing;
A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
There is a time to throw away stones and a time to gather them. There is a time to hug and a time not to hug.
A time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre from embracing.
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
for throwing stones and gathering stones, embracing and parting.
a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
There is a time to throw weapons down and a time to pick them up. There is a time to hug someone and a time to stop holding so tightly.
A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
the time for making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the time for not kissing.
a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A tyme to cast awaye stones, and a tyme to gather stones together: A tyme to enbrace, & a tyme to refrayne from enbracynge:
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; {S}{S}{N}
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together: a time to imbrace, and a time to refraine from imbracing.
A tyme to cast away stones, and a tyme to gather stones together: A tyme to imbrace, and a tyme to refrayne from imbracyng.
a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Tyme to scatere stoonys, and tyme to gadere togidere; tyme to colle, and tyme to be fer fro collyngis.
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
There is a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to kiss, and a time to turn from kissing.
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to heap up stones, - A time to embrace, and a time to be far from loving embrace;
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to cast: Joshua 4:3-9, Joshua 10:27, 2 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 18:18, 2 Kings 3:25
a time to embrace: Exodus 19:15, 1 Samuel 21:4, 1 Samuel 21:5, Song of Solomon 2:6, Song of Solomon 2:7, Joel 2:16, 1 Corinthians 7:5
refrain from: Heb. be far from
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:46 - Gather
Cross-References
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
"I heard Your voice in the garden," he replied, "and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together,.... To cast stones out of a field or vineyard where they are hurtful, and to gather them together to make walls and fences of, or build houses with; and may be understood both of throwing down buildings, as the temple of Jerusalem, so that not one stone was left upon another; of pouring out the stones of the sanctuary, and of gathering them again and laying them on one another; which was done when the servants of the Lord took pleasure in the stones of Zion, and favoured the dust thereof. Some understand this of precious stones, and of casting them away through luxury, wantonness, or contempt, and gathering them again: and it may be applied, as to the neglect of the Gentiles for a long time, and the gathering of those stones of which children were raised to Abraham; so of the casting away of the Jews for their rejection of the Messiah, and of the gathering of them again by conversion, when they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign on his land, Zechariah 9:16;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing: or "to be far from" g it; it may not only design conjugal embraces h, but parents embracing their children, as Jacob did his; and one brother embracing another, as Esau Jacob, and one friend embracing another; all which is very proper and agreeable at times: but there are some seasons so very calamitous and distressing, in which persons are obliged to drop such fondnesses: it is true, in a spiritual sense, of the embraces of Christ and believers, which sometimes are, and sometimes are not, enjoyed, Proverbs 4:8.
g עת לרחק "tempus elongandi se", Pagninus, Montanus; "tempus longe fieri", V. L. h "Optatos dedit amplexus", Virgil. Aeneid. 8. v. 405.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Stones may be regarded either as materials for building, or as impediments to the fertility of land (see 2 Kings 3:19, 2 Kings 3:25; Isaiah 5:2).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:5. A time to cast away stones, - to gather stones, - to embrace, - to refrain —
"One while domestic cares abortive prove,
And then successful. Nature now invites
Connubial pleasures: but, when languid grown,
No less rejects."
