1And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son by Yehovah. 3And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I truly dedicate the silver to Yehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you. 4And when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it 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. 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 to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place. 10And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of clothing, and your provisions. So the Levite went in. 11And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to 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 Micah said, Now I know that Yehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.