Proverbs 4:1-4

A Father’s Wise Instruction

1 aHear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may bgain
Hebrew know
insight,
2for I give you good dprecepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3When I was a son with my father,
etender, fthe only one in the sight of my mother,
4he gtaught me and said to me,
h“Let your heart hold fast my words;
ikeep my commandments, and live.
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