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.