23 And he called to him one of the [household] slaves, and inquired what these things might be.
24 And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.
25 But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him.
26 But he answered and said to his father, Look, these many years I serve you as a slave, and I never transgressed a commandment of yours; and [yet] you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends: