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Proverbs 6:20-22 in English

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Proverbs 6:20-22 in American Standard Version (1901)

20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in American Standard Version (1901)

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Brenton Septuagint Translation

20 My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
21 but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.
22 Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; and when thou sleepest let it keep thee; that it may talk with thee when thou wakest.
Proverbs 6 in Brenton Septuagint Translation

Proverbs 6:20-22 in King James Version + Apocrypha

20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in King James Version + Apocrypha

Proverbs 6:20-22 in King James (Authorized) Version

20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in King James (Authorized) Version

Proverbs 6:20-22 in LXX2012: Septuagint in American English 2012

20 My son, keep the laws of your father, and reject not the ordinances of your mother:
21 but bind them upon your soul continually, and hang them as a chain about your neck.
22 Whenever you walk, lead this along and let it be with you; that it may talk with you when you wake.
Proverbs 6 in LXX2012: Septuagint in American English 2012

PROVERBS 6:20-22 in Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895)

20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
PROVERBS 6 in Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895)

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Translation for Translators

20 My son, obey my commands, and do not ignore what your mother has taught you.
21 Remember the things that we have said. Those things should be like a beautiful necklace around your neck.
22 If you follow our advice, it will be as though what we have taught you PRS will lead you, wherever you go. When you sleep, they will protect you. And when you wake up in the morning, they will teach/instruct you.
Proverbs 6 in Translation for Translators

Proverbs 6:20-22 in LXX2012: Septuagint in British/International English 2012

20 My son, keep the laws of your father, and reject not the ordinances of your mother:
21 but bind them upon your soul continually, and hang them as a chain about your neck.
22 Whenever you walk, lead this along and let it be with you; that it may talk with you when you wake.
Proverbs 6 in LXX2012: Septuagint in British/International English 2012

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World English Bible with Deuterocanon

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World English Bible with Deuterocanon

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World English Bible (Catholic)

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World English Bible (Catholic)

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Bible in Basic English

20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in Bible in Basic English

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Darby Translation

20 My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
21 bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
22 when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in Darby Translation

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Douay-Rheims 1899

20 My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
21 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
22 When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee; and when thou awakest, talk with them.
Proverbs 6 in Douay-Rheims 1899

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Free Bible Version

20 My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
21 Keep them always in mind. Tie them around your neck.
22 They will lead you as you walk along; they will watch over you as you sleep; when you wake up they will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in Free Bible Version

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Geneva Bible 1599

20 My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.
21 Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
22 It shall leade thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou sleepest, and when thou wakest, it shall talke with thee.
Proverbs 6 in Geneva Bible 1599

Proverbs 6:20-22 in JPS TaNaKH 1917

20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
21 Bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou walkest, it shall lead thee, when thou liest down, it shall watch over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in JPS TaNaKH 1917

Proverbs 6:20-22 in KJV Cambridge Paragraph Bible

20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, And tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in KJV Cambridge Paragraph Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Isaac Leeser Tanakh

20 Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:
21 Bind them upon thy heart continually, tie them about thy throat.
22 When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou liest down, it shall watch over thee; and when thou art awake, it shall converse with thee.
Proverbs 6 in Isaac Leeser Tanakh

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Updated Brenton English Septuagint

20 My son, keep the laws of thy father, And reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
21 But bind them upon thy soul continually, And hang them as a chain about thy neck.
22 Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; And when thou sleepest let it keep thee; That it may talk with thee when thou wakest.
Proverbs 6 in Updated Brenton English Septuagint

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Nyangumarta English Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 don't exist in Nyangumarta English Bible.

Proverbs 6:20-22 in George Noyes Bible

20 Keep, O my son! the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the precepts of thy mother!
21 Bind them continually to thy heart, Tie them around thy neck!
22 When thou goest forth, they shall guide thee; When thou sleepest, they shall watch over thee; And, when thou awakest, they shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in George Noyes Bible

Proverbs [Sayings] 6:20-22 in One Unity Resource Bible

20 My son, keep your father’s mitzvah ·instruction·, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs [Sayings] 6 in One Unity Resource Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Unlocked Literal Bible

20 My son, obey the command of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
21 Always bind them on your heart; tie them about your neck.
22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; and when you wake up, they will teach you.
Proverbs 6 in Unlocked Literal Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World English Bible

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World English Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World English Bible British Edition

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World English Bible British Edition

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Noah Webster Bible

20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thy heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 6 in Noah Webster Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World Messianic Bible

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World Messianic Bible

Proverbs 6:20-22 in World Messianic Bible British Edition

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6 in World Messianic Bible British Edition

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

20 My son, keep the commandments of thy father; and forsake thou not the law of thy mother.
21 Bind thou those continually in thine heart; and encompass to thy throat.
22 When thou goest, go they with thee; when thou sleepest, keep they thee; and thou waking, speak with them.

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling (Enhanced)

20 My son, keep the commandments of thy father; and forsake thou not the law of thy mother. (My son, obey thy father’s commands; and do not thou abandon thy mother’s instructions.)
21 Bind thou those continually in thine heart; and encompass to thy throat. (Bind thou them continually to thy heart; and tie them about thy neck.)
22 When thou goest, go they with thee; when thou sleepest, keep they thee (safe); and thou waking, speak with them.

Proverbs 6:20-22 in Young's Literal Translation

20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
21 Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
22 In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked — it talketh with thee.