1
And there was a man of Mount Ephraim, whose name
was Micah.
2
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred
shekels of silver that were stolen from thee, about which thou didst curse in my hearing, behold, the silver
is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed
be thou of the LORD, my son.
3
And when he had restored the eleven hundred
shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had completely dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for thee, my son, to make thee a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will restore it unto thee.
4
After the money was restored unto her, his mother took two hundred
shekels of silver and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image, which was
set up in the house of Micah.
5
And the man Micah had a brothel of idolatry, {Heb. house of gods}, and made an ephod and teraphim {the vessels, clothing and instruments pertaining to idol worship} and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6
In those days
there was no king in Israel; each one did
that which was right in his own eyes.
7
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem of Judah of the family of Judah, who
was a Levite, and he sojourned there.