1There was a man from Mount Ephraim, and his name was Micahu.2He said to his mother, "The thousand and the hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you swore and also spoke in my hearing—behold, the silver is with me; I took it." His mother said, "May my son be blessed to the LORD."3He returned the thousand and the hundred pieces of silver to his mother. His mother said, "I consecrate; I have consecrated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make an idol and a liquid; and now I will return it to you."4He returned the silver to his mother. His mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the refiner, and he made them into an idol and a liquid; and it remained in the house of Micahu.5The man Micah had a house of God. He made an ephod and teraphim, and he filled the hand of one of his sons, so that one became his priest.6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.7There was a youth from Bethlehem in Judah, from the clan of Judah; he was a Levite and he was sojourning there.8The man set out from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn wherever he might find a place, and he came to Mount Ephraim as far as the house of Micah to continue on his way.9Micah said to him, "Where have you come from?" He said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn wherever I may find a place."10Micah said to him, "Stay with me and be a father and priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, along with clothing and your maintenance." So the Levite went.11The Levite agreed to stay with the man, and the youth became to him like one of his sons.12Micah filled the hand of the Levite, and the youth became his priest and remained in the house of Micah.13Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will deal well with me, because I have this Levite as priest."