Ecclesiastes 3:5

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

leveling the cities, each one casting the stones onto every fertile field and filling it, stopping up every spring, felling every fruit tree, until only the stones of Kir-hareseth remained. Then the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Exodus 19:15

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not approach a woman.” The Great Theophany.

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 elderly; gather the children, even infants nursing at the breast; Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her bridal tent.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, to be free for prayer, but then return to one another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua commanded that they be taken down from the trees and be thrown into the cave where they had hidden; over the mouth of the cave large stones were placed, which remain until this very day. Conquest of Southern Canaan.