Ecclesiastes 3:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:5 Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

And they broke down the cities, and each man threw a stone on every good piece of land and filled it. And they stopped up all the fountains of water and cut down all the good trees, until only the stones of Qir Ḥ

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Be prepared by the third day. Do not come near a wife.”

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 throw away;

Joel 2:16

Gather the people, set the assembly apart, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes. Let a bridegroom come out from his room, and a bride from her dressing room.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except with agreement for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not try you because of your lack of self-control.

Joshua 10:27

And it came to be, at the time of the going down of the sun, that Yehoshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave’s mouth, to this day.