'Do not forsake your mother's teaching'

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Originally 'father and son' meant teacher and student; later it meant actual parents. The international Proverbs of Ahiqar, read at Elephantine, never mentions women. Egyptian proverbs are often suspicious of them. Biblical Proverbs gives women a leading role in wisdom.

Bible reference: Proverbs 6:20

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 425

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