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And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah (17:1)

And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed [be thou] of the Lord, my son (17:2)

And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee (17:3)

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah (17:4)

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest (17:5)

In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes (17:6)

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there (17:7)

And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed (17:8)

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place] (17:9)

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in (17:10)

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons (17:11)

And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah (17:12)

Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest (17:13)

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