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(Jdg 17:1) And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name {was} Micah.
(Jdg 17:2) 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.
(Jdg 17:3) 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.
(Jdg 17:4) 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.
(Jdg 17:5) 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.
(Jdg 17:6) In those days {there was} no king in Israel, {but} every man did {that which was} right in his own eyes.
(Jdg 17:7) And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who {was} a Levite, and he sojourned there.
(Jdg 17:8) 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.
(Jdg 17:9) 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}.
(Jdg 17:10) 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.
(Jdg 17:11) And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
(Jdg 17:12) And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
(Jdg 17:13) Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to {my} priest.
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