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'Your brother is here,' he told him, 'and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.' [a]
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"Then he became angry and didn't want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
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But he replied to his father, 'Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets [b] with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.'
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" 'Son,' [c] he said to him, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
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But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' "