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27 And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed [a]that [wheat-]fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and well.

28 But [the elder brother] was angry [with deep-seated wrath] and resolved not to go in. Then his father came out and began to plead with him,

29 But he answered his father, Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never disobeyed your command. Yet you never gave me [so much as] a [little] kid, that I might [b]revel and feast and be happy and make merry with my friends;

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:27 William Tyndale, The Tyndale Bible.
  2. Luke 15:29 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.

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