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


In Context

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

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

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

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

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

17 But 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!

Luke 15:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:15and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.