²¹ Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.^(A)

³ Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.^(A)

²³ For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,^(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,^(B)

² Keep my commands and you will live;^(A)
    guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

²⁴ keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.^(A)