^{25 Ref} "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

²⁶ He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

^{27 Ref} He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

^{28 Ref} But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

^{29 Ref} But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

^{30 Ref} But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'