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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 6:20
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My son, keep your father’s command,and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.
My son, keep your father's mitzvah, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
My son, keep your father's commands, and don't forget your mother's teaching.
My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
My son, be guided by your father's [God-given] commandment (instruction) And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
My son, comply with the commandment of your father, And do not ignore the teaching of your mother;
My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.
My son, observe the commandment of your fatherAnd do not abandon the law of your mother;
My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Obey the teaching of your parents—
My son, obey your father's command, and don't abandon your mother's teaching.
My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
My son, remember your father's command, and don't forget your mother's teaching.
My son, keep your fathers commandment and do not forsake the law of your mother;
My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the law of your mother.
My sonne, kepe thy fathers comaundemetes, & forsake not ye lawe of thy mother.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
My sonne, kepe thy fathers commaundement, and forsake not the lawe of thy mother:
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Mi sone, kepe the comaundementis of thi fadir; and forsake not the lawe of thi modir.
My son, keep the commandment of your father, And don't forsake the law of your mother:
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, keep your father's command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.
My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's instruction.
My son, keep the teaching of your father, and do not turn away from the teaching of your mother.
My child, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:
My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
Good friend, follow your father's good advice; don't wander off from your mother's teachings. Wrap yourself in them from head to foot; wear them like a scarf around your neck. Wherever you walk, they'll guide you; whenever you rest, they'll guard you; when you wake up, they'll tell you what's next. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.
My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 1:9, Proverbs 7:1-4, Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 30:11, Deuteronomy 21:18, Deuteronomy 27:16, Ephesians 6:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 18:19 - command Genesis 39:8 - refused Genesis 49:2 - hearken Exodus 13:9 - a sign Leviticus 19:3 - fear Deuteronomy 11:18 - ye lay up Psalms 119:9 - shall Psalms 119:24 - my counsellors Proverbs 4:1 - ye Proverbs 4:20 - General Proverbs 31:1 - his Jeremiah 35:8 - General 1 Corinthians 15:2 - keep in memory Colossians 3:20 - obey
Cross-References
And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.
And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.
And Noe begot three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth.
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, keep thy father's commandment,.... These are not the words of David to Solomon continued from Proverbs 4:4; but the words of Solomon to his son; and not to his son only, in a strict natural relation, but to everyone that came to him for and put himself under his instruction; and to everyone that stood in such a relation to a religious father; for not the divine Being, the Father of all, is here meant, according to some Jewish writers; though the commandment no doubt is the commandment of God taught by godly parents; or such a system of precepts that is founded upon and agrees unto the revealed will of God, and which being so should be laid up and kept in the heart, and not forgotten; and should be observed and attended to and obeyed throughout the whole course of life, as if it was the commandment of God himself; and indeed it is no other than that which pious parents train up their children in the knowledge of, instil into them, and urge upon them the observance of;
and forsake not the law of thy mother; the same as before, and which is mentioned to show that the same respect is to be had to a mother as to a father, the commandment and law of them being the same, and they standing in the same relation; which yet children are apt to make a difference in, and while they stand in awe of their father and his precepts, slight their mother and her directions, which ought not to be. Some understand this of the congregation of Israel, as some Jewish writers; and others of the church of God, the mother of us all.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:20. Keep thy father's commandment — See on Proverbs 1:8.
