12
The younger of them said to his father, "Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' So he divided his property between them.
13
A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.
14
When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
15
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.
16
He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.
[a].
Other ancient authorities read [filled his stomach with]
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