So he went and worked for ¹  one of the citizens of that country, who ²  sent him to his fields to feed pigs. ³ 

biblegateway Luk 15:15

"So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

biblegateway Luk 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

bibleoremus Luk 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.

So he went and attached himself to one of the local landowners, who sent him on to his farm to mind the pigs.

biblegateway Luk 15:15

"Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

biblegateway Luk 15:15

So he went and worked for ¹  one of the citizens of that country, who ²  sent him to his fields to feed pigs. ³ 

¹ tn Grk “joined himself to” (in this case an idiom for beginning to work for someone).

² tn Grk “and he.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) and the personal pronoun have been translated by a relative pronoun to improve the English style.

³ sn To a Jew, being sent to the field to feed pigs would be an insult, since pigs were considered unclean animals (Lev 11:7).