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,
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to cast

Joshua 4:3-9
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.'" . . .

Joshua 10:27
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.

2 Samuel 18:17, 18
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 Kings 3:25
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 slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

a time to embrace

Exodus 19:15
"Be prepared for the third day, " he said to the people. "Do not draw near to a woman."

1 Samuel 21:4, 5
"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." . . .

Song of Solomon 2:6, 7
His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. . . .

Joel 2:16
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.

1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another, except by mutual consent for a limited time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

refrain from

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

King James 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;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing;

International Standard Version
a time to scatter stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

NET Bible
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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