Judges 17
17:1And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Micah.
17:2And he said to his mother, The thousand and hundred pieces of silver seized from you, and you adjured and said it in my ears -- behold, the silver is with me, I took it. And his mother said, Being blessed is my son in the lord.
17:3And he gave back the thousand and hundred pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, By sanctification, I sanctified the silver to the lord out of my hand alone, to make a carving and molten image, and now I will give it back to you.
17:4And he gave back the silver to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred of the pieces of silver, and gave them to the smelterer. And he made it into a carving and molten image. And it was in the house of Micah.
17:5And the house of Micah was to him the house of God. And he made an ephod and teraphim. And he filled up the hand of one of his sons, and he became to him for a priest.
17:6In those days there was not a king in Israel; a man did upright in his own eyes.
17:7And there was a young man from out of Beth-lehem Judah from the kin of Judah, and he was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
17:8And the man went from the city of Beth-lehem Judah to sojourn where ever he should find. And he came unto mount Ephraim, and unto the house of Micah, making his way.
17:9And Micah said to him, From what place come you? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where ever I should find.
17:10And Micah said to him, Sit down with me, and become to me as a father and as priest, and I will give to you ten silver pieces for days, and a pair of clothes, and the things for your means of life.
17:11And the Levite went, and he began to sojourn by the man. And the young man became to him as one of his sons.
17:12And Micah filled up the hand of the Levite, and the young man became to him for a priest, and he was in the house of Micah.
17:13And Micah said, Now I know that the lord did good to me, for the Levite became to me for a priest.