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Proverbs 23:25

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23:25May your father and your mother have joy;

may she who bore you rejoice.42

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  1. 42 The form תָגֵל (tagel) is clearly a short form and therefore a jussive (“may she … rejoice”); if this second verb is a jussive, then the parallel יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) should be a jussive also (“may your father and your mother have joy”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let your father and mother be glad;

let her who bore you rejoice.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

May your father and mother rejoice;

may she who gave you birth be joyful!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Let your father and mother have joy,

and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.

NLTNew Living Translation

So give your father and mother joy!

May she who gave you birth be happy.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

May your father and your mother be glad,

and may she who bore you rejoice.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,

And she that bare thee shall rejoice.