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3-4 My father taught me when I was a little boy. My mother loved me as her only child. My father said to me,

    ‘Think carefully about what I tell you.
    If you obey my commands, you will live well.
    Learn to be wise and to understand things properly.
    Do not forget my teaching or turn away from it.

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For I too was a son to my father,
    still tender, and cherished by my mother.
Then he taught me, and he said to me,
    “Take hold(A) of my words with all your heart;
    keep my commands, and you will live.(B)
Get wisdom,(C) get understanding;
    do not forget my words or turn away from them.

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