He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son (A)to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return [a]them to you.” 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 [b]them into a graven image and a molten image, and [c]they were in the house of Micah. And the man Micah had a [d](B)shrine and he made an (C)ephod and [e](D)household idols and [f]consecrated one of his sons, (E)that he might become his priest.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:3 Lit it
  2. Judges 17:4 Lit it
  3. Judges 17:4 Lit it was
  4. Judges 17:5 Lit house of gods
  5. Judges 17:5 Heb teraphim
  6. Judges 17:5 Lit filled the hand of