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We have obeyed the charge of our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,(A)

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20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.(A)

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20 My child, keep your father’s commandment,
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.(A)

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Admonition to Keep to the Right Path

10 Hear, my child, and accept my words,
    that the years of your life may be many.

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Parental Advice

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight,(A)
for I give you good precepts:
    do not forsake my teaching.

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Footnotes

  1. 4.1 Heb know

Warnings against Evil Companions

Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,
    and do not reject your mother’s teaching,(A)
for they are a fair garland for your head
    and pendants for your neck.(B)

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13 A wise child loves discipline,[a]
    but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.1 Cn: Heb A wise child the discipline of his father