17:1
fuit eo tempore vir quidam de monte Ephraim nomine Michas

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qui dixit matri suae mille centum argenteos quosseparaveras tibi et super quibus me audiente iuraveras ecce egohabeo et apud me sunt cui illa respondit benedictus filius meusDomino

17:3
reddidit ergo eos matri suae quae dixerat ei consecravi etvovi argentum hoc Domino ut de manu mea suscipiat filius meuset faciat sculptile atque conflatile et nunc trado illud tibi

17:4
reddidit igitur matri suae quae tulit ducentos argenteos etdedit eos argentario ut faceret ex eis sculptile atqueconflatile quod fuit in domo Micha

17:5
qui aediculam quoque in ea Deo separavit et fecit ephod actherafin id est vestem sacerdotalem et idola implevitque uniusfiliorum suorum manum et factus est ei sacerdos

17:6
in diebus illis non erat rex in Israhel sed unusquisquequod sibi rectum videbatur hoc faciebat

17:7
fuit quoque alter adulescens de Bethleem Iuda et cognationeeius eratque ipse Levites et habitabat ibi

17:8
egressusque de civitate Bethleem peregrinari voluitubicumque sibi commodum repperisset cumque venisset in monteEphraim iter faciens et declinasset parumper in domum Micha

17:9
interrogatus est ab eo unde venis qui respondit Levita sumde Bethleem Iuda et vado ut habitem ubi potuero et utile mihiesse perspexero

17:10
mane inquit apud me et esto mihi parens ac sacerdosdaboque tibi per annos singulos decem argenteos ac vestemduplicem et quae ad victum necessaria sunt

17:11
adquievit et mansit apud hominem fuitque illi quasi unusde filiis

17:12
implevitque Micha manum eius et habuit apud se puerumsacerdotem

17:13
nunc scio dicens quod bene mihi faciat Deus habentilevitici generis sacerdotem

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017:001
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

017:002
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.

017:003
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

017:004
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

017:005
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

017:006
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

017:007
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

017:008
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

017:009
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

017:010
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

017:011
And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

017:012
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

017:013
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

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