1. Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).
2. For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.
3. For I was ben to avi, tender and yachid (an only child) before immi.
4. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine lev retain my words; be shomer over my mitzvot, and live.
5. Acquire chochmah, acquire binah (understanding); forget it not; neither turn from the words of my peh (mouth).
6. Forsake her not, and she shall be shomer over thee; love her, and she shall protect thee.