Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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

⁵ 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)

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

Ecclesiastes 3:5 Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone, until it was covered; they stopped every spring of water, and felled all the good trees; till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and conquered it.

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Be ready by the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Joel 2:16

gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.

Joshua 10:27

but at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set great stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.