Luke 15:23

And bringe hidder that fatted caulfe and kyll him and let vs eate and be mery:

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

In Context

22But his father sayde to his servautes: bringe forth that best garment and put it on him and put a rynge on his honde and showes on his fete.

24for this my sonne was deed and is alyve agayne he was loste and is now founde. And they began to be merye.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:7And Abraham ran vnto his beastes and fett a calfe that was tendre and good and gaue it vnto a yonge man which made it redy attonce.

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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