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15 Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.(A) 16 He longed to eat his fill from[a] the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything. 17 When he came to his senses,[b] he said, “How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger![c]

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  1. 15:16 Other mss read to fill his stomach with
  2. 15:17 Lit to himself
  3. 15:17 Or dying in the famine; v. 14