Luke 15:12 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹² The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, [please] give me my share of your property that I have coming.’ So, the father divided up what he had to live on [with his two sons].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the part of the property that falls [to me]. And he divided the estate between them. [Deut. 21:15-17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

Common English Bible

¹² The younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the inheritance.’ Then the father divided his estate between them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And the younger of them said to the father, 'Father, give me the portion of your estate which would go to me.' And he divided the estate between them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.

Luke 15:12 Cross References

Mark 12:44

For all of them threw in from their abundance, but being very poor, she threw in everything she had, even all she had to live on.”

Luke 15:11

Then Jesus said, “A certain man had two sons.

Luke 15:13

And a few days later, this younger son gathered everything together and traveled to a distant country where he squandered his possessions in wild living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came [home], after having squandered all you gave him on prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’