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 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.
3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel,
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah,
who was a Levite,
and he sojourned there.
8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah
to sojourn where he could find a place:
and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah,
as he journeyed.
9 And Micah said unto him,
Whence comest thou?
And he said unto him,
I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah,
and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
10 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.
11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man;
and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
12 And Micah consecrated the Levite;
and the young man became his priest,
and was in the house of Micah.
13 Then said Micah,
Now know I
that the Lord will do me good,
seeing I have a Levite to my priest.