⁷ Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the family [of the tribe] of Judah, who was a ^[a]Levite; and he was staying there [temporarily]. ⁸ Then the man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah. ⁹ Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I can find a place.” ¹⁰ And Micah said to him, “Live here with me and be a father and a [personal] priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver each year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance (room and board).” So the Levite went in. ¹¹ The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to Micah like one of his sons. ¹² So Micah dedicated (installed) the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah. ¹³ Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will favor me and make me prosper because I have a Levite as my priest.”