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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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20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy 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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22 Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

23 Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.

25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall 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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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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