Luke 15:12

and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

In Context

11And He said, “A certain man had two sons,

13And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:16then it has been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he has, he is not able to declare firstborn the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one—the firstborn.

Psalms 17:14From men, Your hand, O YHWH, || From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, || And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, || They are satisfied [with] sons, || And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

Luke 15:30but when your son—this one who devoured your living with prostitutes—came, you killed to him the fatted calf.

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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