Luke 15:12

And his younger son said to him: My father, give me the portion that falleth to me from thy house. And he divided to them his property.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 Jesus said to them again: A certain man had two sons.

13And after a few days, the younger son collected together all that fell to him, and went to a distant place and there squandered his property, by living in dissipation.

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Cross References

Luke 15:30But for this thy son, when he had dissipated thy property with harlots, and came home, thou hast slain the fatted bullock for him.

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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