DISCIPLINE — this translation's rendering, with the ASV and NWT, over the KJV/NIV's softer 'instruction': from yasar, 'to chasten, correct, train,' musar is the corrective sense that dominates Proverbs — 'do not despise the discipline of Jehovah' (3:11), 'he who spares the rod hates his son' (13:24, the same word). Not neutral information but formation that COSTS: the lesson and the rod behind it, given by a parent (1:8) and despised by a fool (1:7). ⭐ The VERB itself, not this noun, is spoken directly of God at Deuteronomy 8:5 (already on these pages) — 'as a man disciplines (yeyasser) his son, Jehovah your God disciplines (meyasserkha) you' — the one place in the Torah's own narrative, rather than in Wisdom literature, where the parent-child image this whole vocabulary is built on is applied to God directly, ⭐ And the NOUN arrives at Deuteronomy 11:2, one chapter after that verb, as the object of a sentence with no main clause: what the fathers are told to KNOW is the musar of Jehovah, and the six verses that follow spell out its content — a drowned army and a ground that opens. The shelf splits on how hard to hit it: the KJV, the ASV and the Geneva 1599 all print 'chastisement' there, the NWT 1984 'discipline'. in the plain past tense, of forty real years. → first discussed at Gen 1:2