Luke 15:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:7

And 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 feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,

Proverbs 15:17

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

Proverbs 9:2

She has slaughtered her beasts, 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 fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined.

Luke 15:22

But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;

Luke 15:24

for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to make merry.

1 Samuel 28:24

Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour, and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,