The writer shifts into listing several merisms of life.

## For everything there is an appointed time, and a season for every purpose ##

These two phrases mean basically the same thing and are combined for emphasis. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

##  born and...die ... kill and...heal ##

These are various aspects of life as described from one extreme to the other. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])

## a time to pull up plants ##

Possible meanings are 1) "a time to harvest" or 2) "a time to weed" or "a time to uproot"