| 1 | And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. |
| 2 | And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah. |
| 3 | And he restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto Jehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. |
| 4 | And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah. |
| 5 | And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he 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: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. |
| 7 | And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. |
| 8 | And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill-country of 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 Beth-lehem-judah, 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 [pieces] 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 Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. |
