Judges 17 There was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ There was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah; ² and he said to his mother, With regard to the eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou hadst taken for thyself, and for which thou didst lay me under a curse, and speak in my hearing, behold the money is in my possession. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed of the Lord is my son. ³ And when he gave his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, I indeed had dedicated this money to the Lord, out of my hand, for my son to make a graven and a molten image. ⁴ Now therefore I will give it to thee. So when he gave his mother the money, she took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silver smith, and of it he made a graven and a molten image, and it was in the house of Micah. ⁵ So the house of Micah was to him the house of a god. And he made an ephod and theraphin, and consecrated one of his sons, and he became his priest. ⁶ Now in those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. ⁷ And there was a young man of Bethlehem, a community of Juda, but he was a Levite and a sojourner there. ⁸ And this man went from Bethlehem, the city of Juda, to sojourn wherever he could find a place, and came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, with a view to proceed on in his journey. ⁹ And Micah said to him, Whence comest thou? and he in reply, said, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to sojourn wherever I can find a place. ¹⁰ Whereupon Micah said to him, Abide with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of clothes, and thy victuals. ¹¹ So the Levite went in and began his abode with the man; and he treated the youth as one of his sons. ¹² And when Micah had consecrated the Levite, and lie became his priest, and was in Micah's house, ¹³ Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because I have got a Levite for a priest.