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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 shun embracing.
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
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 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;
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 imbrace, and a time to refraine from imbracing.
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 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 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 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; 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;
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: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre 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 cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; {S}{S}{N}
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 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;
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 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 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 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.
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 stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to avoid 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 heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from 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, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of 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."
