Judges:17

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* And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim , whose name was Micah . * And he said to his mother , The eleven hundred [pieces ] of silver that were taken from you , about which you uttered a curse , and also spoke it in my ears , look , the silver is with me ; I took it . And his mother said , Blessed be my son of Yahweh . * And he restored the eleven hundred [pieces ] of silver to his mother ; and his mother said , I truly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son , to make a graven image and a molten image : now therefore I will restore it to you . * And when he restored the money to his mother , his mother took two hundred [pieces ] of silver , and gave them to the goldsmith , who made of it a graven image and a molten image : and it was in the house of Micah . * And the man Micah had a house of gods , and he made an ephod , and talismans , 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-judah , of the family of Judah , who was a Levite ; and he sojourned there . * And the 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 . * And Micah said to him , Where do you come from ? And he said to him , I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah , and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place ]. * And Micah 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 apparel , and your victuals . So the Levite went in . * And the Levite was content to dwell with the man ; and the young man was to 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 Micah said , Now I know that Yahweh will do me good , seeing I have a Levite for my priest .

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