Pais e filhos

12 Honor/Respect your fathers and your mothers, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh God, will give you.

1 You children, because you ◄belong to/have a close relationship with► the Lord Jesus, obey your parents, because it is right for you to do that. 2 God commanded in the Scriptures,

Greatly respect your father and mother.

That is the first law that God commanded in which he also promised something. He promised,

3 If you do that, you will prosper, and you will live a long time.

Children, obey your parents in every circumstance; parents, do not over-correct your children.

20 You children, obey your parents in every circumstance, because the Lord God is pleased when you do that.

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22 Pay attention to what your father tells you,

and ◄do not neglect/take care of► [LIT] your mother when she is old.

26 Anyone who mistreats/abuses his father or forces his mother to leave the home

is a child who is acting shamefully and disgracefully.

20 If someone curses his father or his mother,

his life will be ended, just like a lamp is extinguished.

4 If a widow has children or grandchildren, these children or grandchildren should learn that they are to take care of their own family first. By doing that they can repay their parents and grandparents for all that they did for them when they were young, because doing that pleases God.

6 If you train/teach children to do what is right,

all during their life they will act/behave in that manner.

6 Never forget [IDM] these commands that I am giving to you today. 7 Teach them to your children again and again. Talk about them all the time: When you are in your houses and when you are walking outside; talk about them when you are lying down and when you are doing things.

Warnings about sinful people

8 My son, pay attention to what I, your father, am teaching you.

And do not reject what your mother teaches you.

9 What we teach you will make you respected like having a lovely turban around your head

and like a beautiful necklace to put around your neck.

4 You parents (OR, You fathers), do not treat your children so severely that they become angry. Instead, bring them up well by instructing them and by disciplining them in the manner that the Lord Jesus wants you to do.

21 You parents (OR, you fathers), do not correct your children more than you need to, in order that they do not become discouraged.

15 If children are punished/spanked and reproved/warned,

they become wise;

but if they are allowed to do whatever they want to do,

they do things that cause their mothers to be ashamed of them.

24 Those who do not punish their children for bad behavior do not really love them;

those who love their children start to discipline them when the children are still young.

Since our sufferings are to discipline us, if we have not experienced God’s discipline we are not his true children. We should accept God’s discipline, because it is always to help us.

7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things that happen to you. When God disciplines you he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].

3 Children are a gift that comes to parents from Yahweh;

they are a reward/blessing from him.

4 If a man has sons while he is still young,

when they grow up, they will be able to help him defend his family

like [SIM] a soldier can defend himself if he has a bow and arrows in his hand.

5 A man who has many sons is very happy,

like [MET] a soldier who has many arrows in his quiver is very happy.

If a man with his many grown sons is taken by his enemies to the place where they decide matters, his enemies will never be able to defeat that man,

because his sons will help to defend him.

6 Old people are usually proud of [MET] their grandchildren,

just like children are usually proud of their parents.

24 Righteous children will cause their parents to be very happy;

those whose children are wise are proud of them.

Wise sayings from Solomon

1 These are more proverbs/wise sayings from Solomon:

If children are wise, they cause their parents to be happy;

but if children are foolish, they cause their parents to be very sad.

11 If one of you had a son who asked you (sg) for a fish to eat, ◄you (sg) certainly would not give him a poisonous snake instead!/would you give him a poisonous snake instead?► [RHQ] 12 If he asked you for an egg, ◄you (sg) certainly would not give him a scorpion!/would you give him a scorpion?► [RHQ] 13 Even though you people are evil, you know how to give good things to your children. So your Father in heaven will certainly give good things to those who ask him, including giving the Holy Spirit, who is the best gift."

8 If anyone does not take care of those who live in his own house, and especially if he does not take care of his own family, he has ◄denied/quit believing► what we believe and we should consider that he is worse than a person who does not believe in Christ.

15 But if you do not want to serve/worship Yahweh, you should decide today what gods you will serve/worship. You should decide whether you will serve/worship the gods that your ancestors who lived on the other/east side of the Euphrates River served, or whether you will serve/worship the gods that the descendants of Amor, who previously lived in the land where you are now living, serve/worship. But as for me and my family [MTY], we will serve/worship Yahweh!"

24 The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.

16 "Parents must not be executed for crimes that their children have committed, and children must not be executed for crimes that their parents have committed. People should be executed only for the crimes that they themselves have committed.