Judges:17

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* And there was a man of mount Ephraim , whose name was Micah . * And he said unto his mother , The eleven hundred #H3967shekels 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 . * And when he had restored the eleven hundred #H3967shekels 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * In those days there was no king in Israel Yisra #el #, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes . * And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah Beyth Lechem # of the family of Judah , who was a Levite , and he sojourned there . * And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah Beyth Lechem # to sojourn where he could find a place : and he came to mount 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 Bethlehemjudah Beyth Lechem #, 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 shekels 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 to my priest .

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