Judges:17

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* Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim , whose name was Micah . * And he said unto his mother : 'The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee , about which thou didst utter a curse , and didst also speak it in mine 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 verily dedicate 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 .' * And when he restored the money unto his mother , his mother took two hundred pieces of silver , and gave them to the founder , who made thereof a graven image and a molten image ; and it was in the house of Micah . * And the man Micah had a house of God , and he made an ephod , and teraphim , and consecrated one of his sons , who became his priest . * 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 out of Beth-lehem in Judah--in the family of Judah--who was a Levite , and he sojourned there . * And the man departed out of the city , out of Beth-lehem in 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 . * And Micah said unto him : 'Whence comest thou ?' And he said unto him : 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah , and I go to sojourn where I may find a place .' * And Micah said unto him : 'Dwell with me , and be unto me a father and a priest , and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year , and a suit of apparel , and thy victuals .' So the Levite went in . * And the Levite was content to dwell with the man ; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons . * And Micah consecrated the Levite , and the young man became his priest , and was in the house of Micah . * Then said Micah : 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good , seeing I have a Levite as my priest .'

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