Proverbs 6:20
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

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;

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.

Contemporary English Version
Obey the teaching of your parents--

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

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

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

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

King James 2000 Bible
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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

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

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

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

A Faithful Version
My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother;

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My sonne, kepe thy fathers commaundement, and forsake not the lawe of thy mother:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My sonne, kepe thy fathers comaundemetes, & forsake not ye lawe of thy mother.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Keep, my son, the command of your father, "" And do not leave the law of your mother.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Keep, my son, the commandment of your father and do not forget the law of your mother.

Lamsa Bible
My son, keep your father's commandment and do not forsake the law of your mother;

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

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
















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