Luke 15:16

And he was longing to fill his mogen (stomach) with the pods which the chazirim were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

In Context

15And he went and became associated with one of the citizens of that aretz, and he sent him into his fields to feed chazirim, + 15:15 Lv 11:7

17When he came to his senses, his seichel told him, How many of my Abbaʼs sachirim (hired workers) have more than enough okhel (food) and I am perishing here with hunger.

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Cross References

Job 30:4They cut up mallow plants by the bushes, 1 and juniper roots for their lechem. 1

Psalms 142:4When my ruach became faint within me, 1 then Thou had da'as of my path. 1 In the way wherein I walked 1 have they laid a pach (snare, hidden trap) for me. 1

Isaiah 55:2Why do ye spend kesef for that which is not lechem? 1 And your labor for that which satisfieth not? 1 Pay heed diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is tov, 1 and let your nefesh delight itself in deshen (the best food, the fat of the land). 1

Lamentations 4:5They that did feed delicately 1 are destitute in the chutzot; 1 they that were brought up in purple 1 lie on dunghills. 1

Jonah 2:2Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly,

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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