for I give you good (A)precepts;
    do not forsake my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
    (B)tender, (C)the only one in the sight of my mother,
he (D)taught me and said to me,
(E)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    (F)keep my commandments, and live.

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