1And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim , whose name was Micah . 2And 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 . 3And 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 . 4And 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 . 5And 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 .
The Levite's Arrival
6In those days there was no king in Israel : every man did that which was right in his own eyes . 7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah , of the family of Judah , who was a Levite ; and he sojourned there . 8And 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 . 9And 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 . 10And 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 . 11And the Levite was content to dwell with the man ; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons . 12And Micah consecrated the Levite , and the young man became his priest , and was in the house of Micah . 13Then said Micah , Now know I that Jehovah will do me good , seeing I have a Levite to my priest .