1
Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
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2
He said to his mother, "The eleven * hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the LORD."
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3
He then returned the eleven * hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, "I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you."
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4
So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.
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5
And the man Micah had a shrine * and he made an ephod and household idols and consecrated * one of his sons, that he might become his priest.
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6
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
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7
Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
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8
Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
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9
Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place."
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10
Micah then said to him, "Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance." So the Levite went in.
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11
The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
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12
So Micah consecrated * the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.
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13
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest."
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