Luke 15:13-15

Expanded Bible

¹³ ·Then [Some time later; ^LAfter not many days] the younger son gathered up all that was his and traveled ·far away to another [to a distant] country. There he ·wasted [squandered; scattered] his money in ·foolish [wild; reckless] living. ¹⁴ After he had spent everything, a time came when there was ·no food anywhere [^La severe famine] in the country, and the son ·was poor and hungry [^Lbegan to be in need]. ¹⁵ So he ·got a job with [hired himself out to] one of the citizens there who sent the son into the fields to feed pigs [^Cdegrading work, since pigs were ritually unclean and detestable animals to Jews].