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behold, the silver [is] with me, I have taken it”; and his mother says, “Blessed [is] my son of YHWH.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he gives back the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother says, “I had certainly sanctified the silver to YHWH, from my hand, for my son, to make a carved image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to you.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he gives back the money to his mother, and his mother takes two hundred pieces of silver, and gives them to a refiner, and he makes them a carved image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As for the man Micah, he has a house of gods, and he makes an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrates the hand of one of his sons, and he is for a priest to him; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>in those days there is no king in Israel, each does that which is right in his own eyes.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he [is] a Levite, and he [is] a sojourner there. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the man goes out of the city, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah, to sojourn where he finds, and comes to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, to work his way. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Micah says to him, “Where do you come from?” And he says to him, “I [am] a Levite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I find.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Micah says to him, “Dwell with me, and be for a father and for a priest to me, and I give ten pieces of silver to you for the days, and a suit of garments, and your sustenance”; and the Levite goes [in]. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Micah consecrates the hand of the Levite, and the young man is for a priest to him, and he is in the house of Micah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and Micah says, “Now I have known that YHWH does good to me, for the Levite has been for a priest to me.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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