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¹In that time was a man, that was called Micah, of the hill of Ephraim.

²And he said to his mother, Lo! I have a thousand and an hundred plates of silver, which thou separatedest to thee, and on which thou cursedest, while I heard; and those be with me. To whom she answered, Blessed be my son of the Lord.

³Therefore he yielded those or them to his mother; and she said to him, I hallowed and avowed this silver to the Lord, that my son receive of mine hand, and make a graven image and a molten image; and now I give it to thee.

⁴Therefore he yielded to his mother; and she took two hundred plates of silver, and gave those or them to a workman of silver, that he should make of those or them a graven image and molten image, that was in the house of Micah.

⁵And Micah also separated a little house, or an oratory, therein to God; and made ephod, and teraphim, that is, a priest’s cloth, and idols; and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he was made a priest to him.

⁶In those days was no king in Israel, but each man did that, that seemed rightful or right to himself.

⁷Also another young waxing man was of Bethlehem of Judah, of the kindred of Judah, and he was a deacon or Levite, and dwelled there.

⁸And he went out of the city of Bethlehem, and would be a pilgrim, wherever he found profitable to him-self. And when he made journey, and had come into the hill of Ephraim, and had bowed down a little into the house of Micah,

⁹Micah asked him, From whence comest thou? Which answered, I am a deacon or Levite of Bethlehem of Judah, and I go, that I dwell where I may, and where I see that it is profitable to me.

¹⁰And Micah said, Dwell thou with me, and be thou to me a father and priest; and I shall give to thee by each year ten plates of silver, and a double clothing, and those things that be necessary to lifelode. And He assented,

¹¹and dwelled with that man; and he was to that man as one of his sons.

¹²And Micah filled his hand, and he had the young man priest with him,

¹³and he said, Now I know, that God shall do well to me, having a priest of the kin of Levi.