12The younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me my share of your property.` He divided his living to them.
13Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and took his journey into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
16He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
17But when he came to himself he said, `How many hired servants of my father`s have bread enough to spare, and I`m dying with hunger!
