being a good mother

⁵You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. ⁶And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart. ⁷And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up. ⁸And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes. ⁹And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.

¹⁰Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price. ¹¹The heart of her husband confides in her, and he will not be deprived of spoils. ¹²She will repay him with good, and not evil, all the days of her life. ¹³She has sought wool and flax, and she has worked these by the counsel of her hands. ¹⁴She has become like a merchant’s ship, bringing her bread from far away. ¹⁵And she has risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and provisions to her maids.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

⁵be sensible, chaste, restrained, have concern for the household, be kind, be subordinate to their husbands: so that the Word of God may be not blasphemed.

¹⁷She has wrapped her waist with fortitude, and she has strengthened her arm.

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you went forth from the womb, I sanctified you. And I made you a prophet to the nations.”

¹⁵And she has risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and provisions to her maids.

¹²Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

⁴And so shall you discover grace and good discipline, in the sight of God and men.

²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

²⁰And Adam called each of the living things by their names: all the flying creatures of the air, and all the wild beasts of the land. Yet truly, for Adam, there was not found a helper similar to himself. ²¹And so the Lord God sent a deep sleep upon Adam. And when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and he completed it with flesh for it. ²²And the Lord God built up the rib, which he took from Adam, into a woman. And he led her to Adam. ²³And Adam said: “Now this is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was taken from man.” ²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh. ²⁵Now they were both naked: Adam, of course, and his wife. And they were not ashamed.

²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

¹The words of king Lamuel. The vision by which his mother instructed him: ²“What, O my beloved? What, O beloved of my womb? What, O beloved of my vows? ³Do not give your substance to women, or your riches to overthrow kings. ⁴Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns. ⁵And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor. ⁶Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul.