Proverbs 6:20
New International Version
My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

New Living Translation
My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.

English Standard Version
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Berean Standard Bible
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

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

New King James Version
My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.

New American Standard Bible
My son, comply with the commandment of your father, And do not ignore the teaching of your mother;

NASB 1995
My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

NASB 1977
My son, observe the commandment of your father, And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

Legacy Standard Bible
My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not abandon the law of your mother;

Amplified Bible
My son, be guided by your father’s [God-given] commandment (instruction) And do not reject the teaching of your mother;

Christian Standard Bible
My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Keep, my son, the commandment of your father and do not forget the law of your mother.

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

Contemporary English Version
Obey the teaching of your parents--

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My son, obey the command of your father, and do not disregard the teachings of your mother.

Good News Translation
Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you.

International Standard Version
Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,

JPS Tanakh 1917
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

Literal Standard Version
Keep, my son, the command of your father, | And do not leave the law of your mother.

Majority Standard Bible
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

New American Bible
Observe, my son, your father’s command, and do not reject your mother’s teaching;

NET Bible
My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

New Revised Standard Version
My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

New Heart English Bible
My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

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

World English Bible
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Young's Literal Translation
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Warnings Against Adultery
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.…

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

Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

Jeremiah 35:8
And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives--neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Proverbs 1:8,9
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: …

Proverbs 7:1-4
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee…

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

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Verses 20-35. - 12. Twelfth admonitory discourse. In this the teacher returns again to the subject which he has already treated in the eighth discourse. The extreme tendency of men, and especially young men, to sins of impurity is no doubt, as Delitzsch remarks, the reason why this subject is again resumed. The subject is gradually worked up to the preceding admonitions in vers. 20-23, pointing out that the way of life, the way of safety, is to be secured by obedience to the precepts of parents, whose commandment and law illumine the perilous road of life, and whose reproofs are salutary to the soul. The arguments against the sin of adultery are cogent in their dissuasiveness, and none stronger of a purely temporal nature could be devised. It may be objected that the sin is not put forward in the higher light, as an offence before God. and that the appeal is made simply on the lines of self-interest; but who will deny that the scope of the teaching is distinctly moral, or that mankind is not influenced and dissuaded from sin by such a category of evils as includes personal beggary, dishonour, and death? Verse 20. - The first part of this verse is couched in almost the same terms as that of Proverbs 1:8, except that mitz'rath, "precept," preceptum, is here used instead of musar, eruditio, or "disciplinary instruction," while the latter part of the two verses are identical.

Parallel Commentaries ...


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

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

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

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

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

forsake
תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ (tiṭ·ṭōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 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 517: A mother, )

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


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