Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, American Standard Version (1901) a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; Common English Bible a time for throwing stones and a time for gathering stones, a time for embracing and a time for avoiding embraces, Catholic Public Domain Version A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. |
And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees: until in Kir-hareseth only they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.