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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, keep the commandment of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:20 Or, teaching

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 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
And despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not;
Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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

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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom;
But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

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