Proverbs 23:22

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.

A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother.

The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it

My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:

Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.

From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:

Cursed he making light of his father and his mother: and all the people said, Amen.