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“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.
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But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
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“ ‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.