◄ Luke 15:23 ►
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Good News Translation
Then go and get the prize calf and kill it, and let us celebrate with a feast!

New Revised Standard Version
And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;

Contemporary English Version
Get the best calf and prepare it, so we can eat and celebrate.

New American Bible
Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat and make merry:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat and make merry:

the fatted.

Genesis 18:7 And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it.

Psalm 63:5 Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

Proverbs 9:2 She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city:

Isaiah 25:6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

Isaiah 65:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Matthew 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son.

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Context
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
…22And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. 23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat and make merry: 24Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:24
Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste and killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened bread,

Proverbs 15:17
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

Luke 15:22
And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.

Luke 15:24
Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:22
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