The Book of Judges (WEB)
17: 1There was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 17:2He said to his
mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a
curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. His mother said,
Blessed be my son of Yahweh. 17:3He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother;
and his mother said, I most assuredly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to
make an engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you. 17:4When he
restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to
the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of
Micah. 17:5The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and
consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel:
every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 17:7There was a young man out of
Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. 17:8The man
departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place, and he
came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. 17:9Micah said to him,
Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where
I may find a place. 17:10Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I
will give you ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your victuals. So the
Levite went in. 17:11The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him
as one of his sons. 17:12Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and
was in the house of Micah. 17:13Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good,
seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
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