left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way[a] he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

Micah asked him, ‘Where are you from?’

‘I’m a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,’ he said, ‘and I’m looking for a place to stay.’

10 Then Micah said to him, ‘Live with me and be my father and priest, and I’ll give you ten shekels[b] of silver a year, your clothes and your food.’

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:8 Or To carry on his profession
  2. Judges 17:10 That is, about 115 grams