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When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.

The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim,[a] and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:5 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.