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20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
    and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

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20 My son, obey your father’s commands,
    and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.

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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
    Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
    Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
    Let her who bore you rejoice!

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22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Get the truth and never sell it;
    also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.
24 The father of godly children has cause for joy.
    What a pleasure to have children who are wise.[a]
25 So give your father and mother joy!
    May she who gave you birth be happy.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:24 Hebrew to have a wise son.

15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
    but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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15 To discipline a child produces wisdom,
    but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

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