New Revised Standard Version
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Contemporary English Version
for throwing stones and gathering stones, embracing and parting.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

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

to cast

Joshua 4:3-9 And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night. . . .

Joshua 10:27 And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take them down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down, they cast them into the cave, where they had lain hid, and put great stones at the mouth thereof, which remain until this day.

2 Samuel 18:17,18 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings. . . .

2 Kings 3:25 And they destroyed the cities: And they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.

a time to embrace

Exodus 19:15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

1 Samuel 21:4,5 And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women? . . .

Songs 2:6,7 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. . . .

Joel 2:16 Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.

1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

refrain from