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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 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.
a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from 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 of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
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."
