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\v 1 There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Micah.
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\v 2 He said to his mother, "The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you spoke a curse, and which I heard—look here! I have the silver with me. I stole it." His mother said, "May Yahweh bless you, my son!"
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\v 3 He restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother and his mother said, "I set apart this silver to Yahweh, for my son to make a carved wooden figure and a cast metal figure. So now, I restore it to you."
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\v 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to a metal worker who made them a carved wooden figure and a cast metal figure. It was placed in the house of Micah.
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\v 5 The man Micah had a house of idols and he made an ephod and household gods, and he dedicated one of his sons to become his priest.
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\v 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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\v 7 Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite. He stayed there to fulfill his duties.
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\v 8 The man left Bethlehem in Judah to go and find a place to live. As he journeyed, he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.
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\v 9 Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" The man said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am traveling to find a place where I might live."
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\v 10 Micah said to him, "Live with me and be an adviser and a priest for me. I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your food." So the Levite went into his house.
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\v 11 The Levite was content to live with the man, and the young man became to Micah like one of his sons.
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\v 12 Micah set apart the Levite for sacred duties, and the young man became his priest, and was in Micah's house.
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\v 13 Then Micah said, "Now I know that Yahweh will do good for me, because this Levite has become my priest."
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