士师记 17
1 以法莲山地有一个人名叫米迦。
Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.
2 他对母亲说：“你那一千一百舍客勒银子被人拿去，你因此咒诅，并且告诉了我。看哪，这银子在我这里，是我拿去了。”他母亲说：“我儿啊，愿耶和华赐福与你！”
And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.
3 米迦就把这一千一百舍客勒银子还他母亲。他母亲说：“我分出这银子来为你献给耶和华，好雕刻一个像，铸成一个像。现在我还是交给你。”
And he gave back the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I have made the silver holy to the Lord from me for my son, to make a pictured image and a metal image.
4 米迦将银子还他母亲，他母亲将二百舍客勒银子交给银匠，雕刻一个像，铸成一个像，安置在米迦的屋内。
So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.
5 这米迦有了神堂，又制造以弗得和家中的神像，分派他一个儿子作祭司。
And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.
6 那时以色列中没有王，各人任意而行。
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
7 犹大的伯利恒有一个少年人，是犹大族的利未人，他在那里寄居。
Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.
8 这人离开犹大的伯利恒城，要找一个可住的地方。行路的时候，到了以法莲山地，走到米迦的家。
And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
9 米迦问他说：“你从哪里来？”他回答说：“从犹大的伯利恒来。我是利未人，要找一个可住的地方。”
And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.
10 米迦说：“你可以住在我这里，我以你为父、为祭司。我每年给你十舍客勒银子，一套衣服和度日的食物。”利未人就进了他的家。
Then Micah said to him, Make your living-place with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year and your clothing and food.
11 利未人情愿与那人同住；那人看这少年人如自己的儿子一样。
And the Levite said he would make his living-place with the man, and he became to him as one of his sons.
12 米迦分派这少年的利未人作祭司，他就住在米迦的家里。
And Micah gave the position to the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
13 米迦说：“现在我知道耶和华必赐福与我，因我有一个利未人作祭司。”
Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.
