CLV(i)
1 And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Micah,
2 and he said to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of your, and [of which] you have sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver [is] with me, I have taken it;' and his mother said, `Blessed [is] my son of Yahweh..
3 And he gives back the eleven hundred silverlings to his mother, and his mother said, `I had certainly sanctified the silver to Yahweh, from my hand, for my son, to make a graven image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to you..
4 And he gives back the money to his mother, and his mother takes two hundred silverlings, and gives them to a refiner, and he makes them a graven image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.
5 As to the man Micah, he has a house of elohims, and he makes an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrates the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;"
6 in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes does.
7 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.
8 And the man goes out of the city, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah, to sojourn where he does find, and comes to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, to work his way.
9 And Micah said to him, `Whence come you?' and he said unto him, `A Levite [am] I, of Beth-Lehem-Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I do find..
10 And Micah said to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to you ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and your sustenance;' and the Levite goes [in].
11 And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons.
12 And Micah consecrates the hand of the Levite, and the young man is to him for a priest, and he is in the house of Micah,
13 and Micah said, `Now I have known that Yahweh does good to me, for the Levite has been to me for a priest..