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Micah and the Levite

17 [a]There was a man of the hill country of E′phraim, whose name was Micah. And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. 17–21 Extracts from tribal tradition which give a dark picture of the times.

Micah’s Idols

17 Now a man named Micah(A) from the hill country of Ephraim said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels[a] of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.”

Then his mother said, “The Lord bless you,(B) my son!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:2 That is, about 28 pounds or about 13 kilograms