Luke 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 

Ex 10:3; 2Ch 28:22; Isa 1:5,9,10-13; Isa 57:17; Jer 5:3; Jer 8:4-6; Jer 31:18,19; Eze 16:52,63; Na 3:6; Mal 2:9; Lu 8:32-34; Lu 15:13; Ro 1:24-26; Ro 6:22; 1Co 6:9-11; Eph 2:2,3; Eph 4:17-19; Eph 5:11,12; Col 3:5-7; 2Ti 2:25,26; Tit 3:3; Re 2:21,22

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).