Ecclesiastes 3:5 “a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a tim…”

Ecclesiastes 3:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

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

Geneva Bible 1599

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre from embracing.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

Bible in Basic English

A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;

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Cross references

“to cast”

2 Kings 3:25 Joshua 10:27 Joshua 4:3–9 2 Samuel 18:17 2 Samuel 18:18

2 Kings 3:25 · BSB

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slin…

Joshua 10:27 · BSB

At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

Joshua 4:3–9 · BSB

and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

2 Samuel 18:17 · BSB

They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

2 Samuel 18:18 · BSB

During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’…

“a time to embrace”

Joel 2:16 Exodus 19:15 1 Samuel 21:4 1 Samuel 21:5 Song of Solomon 2:6 Song of Solomon 2:7

Joel 2:16 · BSB

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

Exodus 19:15 · BSB

“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

1 Samuel 21:4 · BSB

“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

1 Samuel 21:5 · BSB

David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”

Song of Solomon 2:6 · BSB

His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

Song of Solomon 2:7 · BSB

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

6a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,

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