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

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

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

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

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

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

and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

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

And do not ignore your mother’s teaching;

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

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Hear, my son, your father’s discipline

And do not abandon your mother’s [fn]instruction;

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My son, hear the instruction of your father,

And do not reject the teaching of your mother.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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اسْتَمِعْ يَا ابْنِي إِلَى تَوْجِيهِ أَبِيكَ وَلا تَتَنَكَّرْ لِتَعْلِيمِ أُمِّكَ.

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שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי מוּסַ֣ר אָבִ֑יךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ תּוֹרַ֥ת אִמֶּֽךָ׃

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ἄκουε υἱέ παιδείαν πατρός σου καὶ μὴ ἀπώσῃ θεσμοὺς μητρός σου

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اِسْمَعْ يَا ابْنِي تَأْدِيبَ أَبِيكَ، وَلاَ تَرْفُضْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ،

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

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

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

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

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我兒、要聽你父親的訓誨、不可離棄你母親的法則〔或作指教〕.

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

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내 아들아 네 아비의 훈계를 들으며 네 어미의 법을 떠나지 말라

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

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

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

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

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