Luke 15:23 - New Revised Standard Version

²³ And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And bring out that [wheat-]fattened calf and kill it; and let us revel and feast and be happy and make merry,

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ and bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and make merry:

Common English Bible

²³ Fetch the fattened calf and slaughter it. We must celebrate with feasting

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And bring the fatted calf here, and kill it. And let us eat and hold a feast.

Luke 15:23 Cross References

Genesis 18:7

Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.

Psalm 63:5

My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 9:2

She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.

Luke 15:22

But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

Luke 15:24

for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.

1 Samuel 28:24

Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house. She quickly slaughtered it, and she took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened cakes.