29 But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assetsG with prostitutes,k you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

31 “ ‘Son,’H he said to him, ‘you are always with me,l and everything I have is yours.