Luke 15:15
Luke 15:12-16 The Message (MSG)
“So the father divided the property between them. It wasn’t long before the younger son packed his bags and left for a distant country. There, undisciplined and dissipated, he wasted everything he had. After he had gone through all his money, there was a bad famine all through that country and he began to feel it. He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him to his fields to slop the pigs. He was so hungry he would have eaten the corn-cobs in the pig slop, but no one would give him any.
Luke 15:15 King James Version (KJV)
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke 15:15 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke 15:15 New Century Version (NCV)
So he got a job with one of the citizens there who sent the son into the fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:15 American Standard Version (ASV)
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke 15:15 New International Version (NIV)
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:15 New King James Version (NKJV)
Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke 15:15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
So he went and forced himself on one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:15 New Living Translation (NLT)
He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.