- In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
- Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
- Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
- 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 may find a place."
- Micah then said to him, "Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance." So the Levite went in.
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- In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.
- A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,
- left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Micah asked him, "Where are you from?" "I'm a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah," he said, "and I'm looking for a place to stay."
- Then Micah said to him, "Live with me and be my father and priest, and I'll give you ten shekels of silver a year, your clothes and your food."
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