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Judges 17:5-7
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5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine.[a] He made an ephod[b] and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.[c] 6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.[d]

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7 There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:5 tn Heb “house of God.”
  2. Judges 17:5 sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).
  3. Judges 17:5 tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”
  4. Judges 17:6 tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”
  5. Judges 17:7 tn Heb “There was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, from the tribe of Judah, and he was a Levite, and he was temporarily residing there.”
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