17:1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
17:2 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. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
17:3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.
17:4 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 an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
17:5 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.
17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
17:7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
17:8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
17:9 Micah said to him, Where did you come from? He said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.
17:10 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 per year, a suit of clothing, and your food. So the Levite went in.
17:11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
17:12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
17:13 Then Micah said, Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest.