Proverbs 6:20 {21}
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Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.

Proverbs 1:8,9 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. . . .

Proverbs 7:1-4 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye: . . .

Proverbs 23:22 Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Context
Warnings Against Adultery
20Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.21When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.…
Cross References
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Proverbs 1:8
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Proverbs 7:1
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

Jeremiah 35:8
Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters:

Lexicon
My son,
בְּ֭נִי (bə·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

keep
נְצֹ֣ר (nə·ṣōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5341: To watch, guard, keep

your father’s
אָבִ֑יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

commandment,
מִצְוַ֣ת (miṣ·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4687: Commandment

and do not
וְאַל־ (wə·’al-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

forsake
תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ (tiṭ·ṭōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5203: To pound, smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, upon

your mother’s
אִמֶּֽךָ׃ (’im·me·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

teaching.
תּוֹרַ֥ת (tō·w·raṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8451: Direction, instruction, law


Additional Translations
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:

My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
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