Luke 15:14-16

Expanded Bible

¹⁴ After he had spent everything, a time came when there was ·no food anywhere [^La severe famine] in the country, and the son ·was poor and hungry [^Lbegan to be in need]. ¹⁵ So he ·got a job with [hired himself out to] one of the citizens there who sent the son into the fields to feed pigs [^Cdegrading work, since pigs were ritually unclean and detestable animals to Jews]. ¹⁶ The son was so hungry that he wanted to ·eat [or fill his stomach with] the pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.