Judges:17

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* And there was a man of mount Ephraim , and his name was Michaias . * And he said to his mother , The eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou tookest of thyself , and about which thou cursedst me , and spokest in my ears , behold , the silver is with me ; I took it : and his mother said , Blessed be my son of the Lord . * And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother ; and his mother said , I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son , to make a graven and a molten image , and now I will restore it to thee . * But he returned the silver to his mother , and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver , and gave (note :)Gr . it (:note ) them to a silversmith , and he made it a graven and a molten image ; and it was in the house of Michaias . * And the house of Michaias was to him the house of God , and he made an ephod and theraphin , and he consecrated one of his sons , and he became to him a priest . * And in those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did that which was right in his own eyes . * And there was a young man in Bethleem of the tribe of Juda , and he was a Levite , and he was sojourning there . * And the man departed from Bethleem the city of Juda to sojourn in whatever place he might find ; and he came as far as mount Ephraim , and to the house of Michaias to accomplish his journey . * And Michaias said to him , Whence comest thou ? and he said to him , I am a Levite of Bethleem Juda , and I go to sojourn in any place I may find . * And Michaias said to him , Dwell with me , and be to me a father and a priest ; and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the (note :)Hebrews . Mymy (year of ) days (:note ) year , and a change of raiment , and thy living . * And the Levite went and began to dwell with the man ; and the young man was to him as one of his sons . * And Michaias consecrated the Levite , and he became to him a priest , and he was in the house of Michaias . * And Michaias said , Now I know that the Lord will do me good , because a Levite has become my priest .

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