Judges

Chapter 17

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

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1There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Micaiah.

2He said to his mother, The eleven hundred of silver that was taken from you, and you cursed, and you also said it in my ears, look, the silver is with me. I took it. His mother said, Blessed is my son by Yahweh.

Notes (2)

Text
The written consonants are ve-atti, “and you,” with a yod, spoken to his mother. The Masoretic reading is ve-at, the same “and you” without the yod. The written spelling is printed.
Translation
The line says eleven hundred of silver. It does not name the unit.

3He returned the eleven hundred of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I have set the silver apart, set it apart, to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a cast image. Now I return it to you.

4He returned the silver to his mother. His mother took two hundred of silver and gave it to the smith, and he made it into a carved image and a cast image. It was in Micaiah’s house.

5The man Micah had a house of gods. He made an ephod and teraphim, and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Notes (1)

Translation
To fill the hand is to install a priest. Teraphim are the household images.

6In those days there was no king in Israel. A man would do whatever was straight in his own eyes.

7There was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, from the clan of Judah. He was a Levite, and he was a sojourner there.

8The man went from the city, from Bethlehem of Judah, to sojourn wherever he could find a place. He came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as Micah’s house, as he made his way.

9Micah said to him, Where do you come from? He said to him, I am a Levite from Bethlehem of Judah, and I am going to sojourn wherever I find a place.

10Micah said to him, Stay with me, and be a father and a priest to me. I will give you ten of silver for the days, a set of clothes, and your food. The Levite went.

11The Levite agreed to stay with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

12Micah filled the hand of the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and he was in Micah’s house.

13Micah said, Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, because the Levite has become my priest.