Proverbs 1:1 (ESV)

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Proverbs 1:8 - Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

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Translations for Proverbs 1:8

KJVKJV (read chapter in KJV)

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

NKJVNKJV (read chapter in NKJV)

My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not forsake the law of your mother;

NLTNLT (read chapter in NLT)

My child,[fn] listen when your father corrects you.
Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.

NIVNIV (read chapter in NIV)

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

ESVESV (read chapter in ESV)

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

CSBCSB (read chapter in CSB)

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,

and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

NASB20NASB20 (read chapter in NASB20)

Listen^H8085, my son^H1121, to your father’s^H1 instruction^H4148,

And do not ignore^H5203 your mother’s^H517 teaching^H8451;

NASB95NASB95 (read chapter in NASB95)

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

LSBLSB (read chapter in LSB)

Hear^H8085, my son^H1121, your father’s^H1 discipline^H4148

And do not abandon^H5203 your mother’s^H517 [fn]instruction^H8451;

AMPAMP (read chapter in AMP)

My son, hear the instruction of your father,

And do not reject the teaching of your mother.

NETNET (read chapter in NET)

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

RSVRSV (read chapter in RSV)

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching;

ASVASV (read chapter in ASV)

My son, hear the instruction of thy father,

And forsake not the law of thy mother:

YLTYLT (read chapter in YLT)

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

DBYDBY (read chapter in DBY)

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

WEBWEB (read chapter in WEB)

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

HNVHNV (read chapter in HNV)

My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

VULVUL (read chapter in VUL)

audi fili mi disciplinam patris tui et ne dimittas legem matris tuae

NAVNAV (read chapter in NAV)

اسْتَمِعْ يَا ابْنِي إِلَى تَوْجِيهِ أَبِيكَ وَلا تَتَنَكَّرْ لِتَعْلِيمِ أُمِّكَ.

WLCWLC (read chapter in WLC)

שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי מוּסַ֣ר אָבִ֑יךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ תּוֹרַ֥ת אִמֶּֽךָ׃

LXXLXX (read chapter in LXX)

ἄκουε υἱέ παιδείαν πατρός σου καὶ μὴ ἀπώσῃ θεσμοὺς μητρός σου

SVDSVD (read chapter in SVD)

اِسْمَعْ يَا ابْنِي تَأْدِيبَ أَبِيكَ، وَلاَ تَرْفُضْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ،

BESBES (read chapter in BES)

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and reject not the rules of thy mother.

RVR09RVR09 (read chapter in RVR09)

Oye, hijo mío, la doctrina de tu padre, y no desprecies la dirección de tu madre:

RVR60RVR60 (read chapter in RVR60)

Oye, hijo mío, la instrucción de tu padre, Y no desprecies la dirección de tu madre;

BBEBBE (read chapter in BBE)

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

CHTCHT (read chapter in CHT)

我兒、要聽你父親的訓誨、不可離棄你母親的法則〔或作指教〕．

EMEM (read chapter in EM)

Escucha, hijo mío, la disciplina de tu padre, y no abandones la instrucción de tu madre;

KORKOR (read chapter in KOR)

내 아들아 네 아비의 훈계를 들으며 네 어미의 법을 떠나지 말라

LSLS (read chapter in LS)

Écoute, mon fils, l'instruction de ton père, Et ne rejette pas l'enseignement de ta mère;

LUTLUT (read chapter in LUT)

Mein Kind, gehorche der Zucht deines Vaters und verlaß nicht das Gebot deiner Mutter.

RSTRST (read chapter in RST)

Слушай, сын мой, наставление отца твоего и не отвергай завета матери твоей,

SESE (read chapter in SE)

Oye, hijo mío, el castigo de tu padre, y no deseches la ley de tu madre;

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