Judges:17

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* There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim , whose name was Micah . * 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 , behold , the silver is with me ; I took it ." His mother said , "Blessed be my son of Yahweh ." * He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother ; and his mother said , "I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son , to make an engraved image and a molten image . Now therefore I will restore it to you ." * When he restored the money to his mother , his mother took two hundred pieces of silver , and gave them to the founder , who made of it an engraved image and a molten image : and it was in the house of Micah . * The man Micah had a house of gods , 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 . * There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah , of the family of Judah , who was a Levite ; and he lived there . * The man departed out of the city , out of Bethlehem Judah , to live where he could find a place , and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah , as he traveled . * Micah said to him , "Where did you come from ?" He said to him , "I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah , and I am looking for a place to live ." * 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 per year , a suit of clothing , and your food ." So the Levite went in . * The Levite was content to dwell with the man ; and the young man was to him as one of his sons . * Micah consecrated the Levite , and the young man became his priest , and was in the house of Micah . * Then Micah said , "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me , since I have a Levite to my priest ."

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