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Warning Against Adultery

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
    and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

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Saying Seventeen

22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
    also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
    and he who fathers a wise child will have joy of him.
25 Your father and your mother will be glad,
    and she who bore you will rejoice.

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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.

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