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13 Don’t fail to discipline your children.
    The rod of punishment won’t kill them.
14 Physical discipline
    may well save them from death.[a]

15 My child,[b] if your heart is wise,
    my own heart will rejoice!

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Footnotes

  1. 23:14 Hebrew from Sheol.
  2. 23:15 Hebrew My son; also in 23:19.

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