# keep my instruction

Here keeping represents obeying. AT: "obey my instructions" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# as the apple of your eye

The apple of the eye is the pupil inside the eye, which people normally instinctively protect when an object flies at their face. Here "the apple of the eye" represents whatever a person values and protects the most. AT: "as your most valuable possession" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])