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Newly planted seedlings and uprooted mature plants lie in adjacent patches of the same field.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

Planting and Uprooting

Times, Justice, and the Same Breath · Ecclesiastes 3

Story guide: Interpretive visual essay. Anonymous figures and settings illustrate this passage; they are not identified historical people.

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1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heavens.

2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted.

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