Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Tree of Life Version a time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
They destroyed the cities. Also each man threw his stone onto every good field and covered it. They stopped up all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees—until nothing was left except Kir-hareseth with the stones of its wall. However, the slingers encircled it and struck it down.
He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not draw near your wives.”
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 discard;
Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even those nursing at breasts. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her chamber.
Do not deprive one another—except by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
It came about at sunset that Joshua commanded that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave where they had hidden themselves. Then they placed large stones at the mouth of the cave which are there to this very day.