12. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.
13. After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.
14. Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.
15. So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
16. He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17. But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!