en_tn/pro/02/01.md

General Information:

A father teaches his child using poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism)

if you receive my words

"if you listen to what I am teaching you"

treasure up my commandments with you

Valuing what is commanded is spoken of as if the commandments were a treasure and the person were a safe place to store the treasure. Alternate translation: "consider my commands to be as valuable as a treasure" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)