KJV King James Version
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
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Luke 15:15
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
WEB World English Bible
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
ASV American Standard Version
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,
Surrounding context — Luke 15
12 And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.
13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
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καὶG2532 · kaiandπορευθεὶςG4198 · poreuōto travelἐκολλήθηG2853 · kollaōto joinἑνὶG1520 · ehisoneτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπολιτῶνG4177 · politēscitizenτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoχώραςG5561 · chōracountryἐκείνης,G1565 · ekeinosthatκαὶG2532 · kaiandἔπεμψενG3992 · pempōto sendαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heεἰςG1519 · eistowardτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀγροὺςG68 · agrosField ofαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heβόσκεινG1006 · boskōto feedχοίρους.G5519 · choirospig
Cross-references
Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.2 Timothy 2:25-26In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.Ephesians 2:2-3Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.Nahum 3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.Jeremiah 31:18-19I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.Revelation 2:21-22And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.Romans 6:22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.Jeremiah 8:4-6Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?Luke 15:13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.Ephesians 4:17-19This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,1 Corinthians 6:9-11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Luke 8:32-34And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.Ezekiel 16:52Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
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