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Judges 17:1-5

Judges 17:1

Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Judges 17:2

And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and also spoke it in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”

Judges 17:3

He then returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly consecrate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a carved image and a cast metal image; so now I will return them to you.”

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a cast metal image, and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:5

And the man Micah had a shrine and he made an ephod and household idols, and consecrated one of his sons, so that he might become his priest.