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12 Apply your heart[a] to instruction,
    and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child,
    if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14 As for you, with the rod you shall beat him,
    and his life[b] you will save from Sheol.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:12 Or “mind”
  2. Proverbs 23:14 Or “soul,” or “inner self”
  3. Proverbs 23:14 A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld