of thy father] Parents should instruct their children in the fear of God, before they go out into the wide world, (for they may think masters speak for their own profit) and children observe what their parents have so taught them, when they are gone from them, Jere. 35. 8. of thy mother] Mothers instruction must be hearkned to, as well as the fathers, Chap. 30. 17. and 31. 1.