士師記 17
1 以法蓮山地有一個人名叫米迦。
And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Micah,
2 他對母親說：「你那一千一百舍客勒銀子被人拿去，你因此咒詛，並且告訴了我。看哪，這銀子在我這裏，是我拿去了。」他母親說：「我兒啊，願耶和華賜福與你！」
and he says to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which have been taken of yours, and [of which] you have sworn, and also spoken in my ears; behold, the silver [is] with me, I have taken it”; and his mother says, “Blessed [is] my son of YHWH.”
3 米迦就把這一千一百舍客勒銀子還他母親。他母親說：「我分出這銀子來為你獻給耶和華，好雕刻一個像，鑄成一個像。現在我還是交給你。」
And he gives back the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother says, “I had certainly sanctified the silver to YHWH, from my hand, for my son, to make a carved image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to you.”
4 米迦將銀子還他母親，他母親將二百舍客勒銀子交給銀匠，雕刻一個像，鑄成一個像，安置在米迦的屋內。
And he gives back the money to his mother, and his mother takes two hundred pieces of silver, and gives them to a refiner, and he makes them a carved image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.
5 這米迦有了神堂，又製造以弗得和家中的神像，分派他一個兒子作祭司。
As for the man Micah, he has a house of gods, and he makes an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrates the hand of one of his sons, and he is for a priest to him;
6 那時以色列中沒有王，各人任意而行。
in those days there is no king in Israel, each does that which is right in his own eyes.
7 猶大的伯利恆有一個少年人，是猶大族的利未人，他在那裏寄居。
And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he [is] a Levite, and he [is] a sojourner there.
8 這人離開猶大的伯利恆城，要找一個可住的地方。行路的時候，到了以法蓮山地，走到米迦的家。
And the man goes out of the city, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah, to sojourn where he finds, and comes to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, to work his way.
9 米迦問他說：「你從哪裏來？」他回答說：「從猶大的伯利恆來。我是利未人，要找一個可住的地方。」
And Micah says to him, “Where do you come from?” And he says to him, “I [am] a Levite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I find.”
10 米迦說：「你可以住在我這裏，我以你為父、為祭司。我每年給你十舍客勒銀子，一套衣服和度日的食物。」利未人就進了他的家。
And Micah says to him, “Dwell with me, and be for a father and for a priest to me, and I give ten pieces of silver to you for the days, and a suit of garments, and your sustenance”; and the Levite goes [in].
11 利未人情願與那人同住；那人看這少年人如自己的兒子一樣。
And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons.
12 米迦分派這少年的利未人作祭司，他就住在米迦的家裏。
And Micah consecrates the hand of the Levite, and the young man is for a priest to him, and he is in the house of Micah,
13 米迦說：「現在我知道耶和華必賜福與我，因我有一個利未人作祭司。」
and Micah says, “Now I have known that YHWH does good to me, for the Levite has been for a priest to me.”
