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29 But he replied to his father, “Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets[a] with prostitutes,(A) you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.”

31 ‘ “Son,”[b] he said to him, “you are always with me,(B) and everything I have is yours.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:30 Or life, or livelihood
  2. 15:31 Lit Child