Luke 15:17

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¹⁷“But when he^* came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have an abundance of food,^b and I am dying here from hunger!

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
bLiterally “of bread”

“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!

“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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