Judges 17:2-4

The Voice

Micah (to his mother): ²Do you remember those 1,100 pieces of silver that were stolen from you? I heard you curse the person who took them. Well, I have them. I took them, and now I want to return them to you.

Micah’s Mother: May my son be blessed by the Eternal!

³He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to her.

Micah’s Mother: I want to give this silver as a holy offering to the Eternal from me for my son to create an image in cast silver.

⁴After Micah returned the silver, she took 200 of the coins returned by her son and gave them to the silversmith, who cast an idol that was kept in Micah’s house.

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