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¹¹He said, "A certain man had two sons.

¹²The younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me my share of your property.` He divided his living to them.

¹³Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and took his journey into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

¹⁴When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

¹⁵He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

¹⁶He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

¹⁷But when he came to himself he said, `How many hired servants of my father`s have bread enough to spare, and I`m dying with hunger!

¹⁸I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

¹⁹I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."`

²⁰He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

²¹The son said to him, `Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son.`

²²But the father said to his servants, `Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

²³Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

²⁴for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.` They began to be merry.

²⁵Now his elder son was in the field. As he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

²⁶He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

²⁷He said to him, `Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him safe and sound.`

²⁸But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

²⁹But he answered his father, `Behold, these many years I served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, and you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

³⁰But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.`

³¹He said to him, `Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

³²But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.`"