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| [1]And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Micah, |
[1]Fuit eo tempore vir quidam de monte Ephraim nomine Michas, |
| [2]and he saith to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of thine, and [of which] thou hast sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver [is] with me, I have taken it;' and his mother saith, `Blessed [is] my son of Jehovah.' |
[2]qui dixit matri suæ: Mille et centum argenteos, quos separaveras tibi, et super quibus me audiente juraveras, ecce ego habeo, et apud me sunt. Cui illa respondit: Benedictus filius meus Domino. |
| [3]And he giveth back the eleven hundred silverlings to his mother, and his mother saith, `I had certainly sanctified the silver to Jehovah, from my hand, for my son, to make a graven image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to thee.' |
[3]Reddidit ergo eos matri suæ, quæ dixerat ei: Consecravi et vovi hoc argentum Domino, ut de manu mea suscipiat filius meus, et faciat sculptile atque conflatile: et nunc trado illud tibi. |
| [4]And he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred silverlings, and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah. |
[4]Reddidit igitur eos matri suæ: quæ tulit ducentos argenteos, et dedit eos argentario, ut faceret ex eis sculptile atque conflatile, quod fuit in domo Michæ. |
| [5]As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest; |
[5]Qui ædiculam quoque in ea deo separavit, et fecit ephod, et theraphim, id est, vestem sacerdotalem, et idola: implevitque unius filiorum suorum manum, et factus est ei sacerdos. |
| [6]in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth. |
[6]In diebus illis non erat rex in Israël, sed unusquisque quod sibi rectum videbatur, hoc faciebat. |
| [7]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. |
[7]Fuit quoque alter adolescens de Bethlehem Juda, ex cognatione ejus: eratque ipse Levites, et habitabat ibi. |
| [8]And the man goeth out of the city, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah, to sojourn where he doth find, and cometh to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, to work his way. |
[8]Egressusque de civitate Bethlehem, peregrinari voluit ubicumque sibi commodum reperisset. Cumque venisset in montem Ephraim, iter faciens, et declinasset parumper in domum Michæ, |
| [9]And Micah saith to him, `Whence comest thou?' and he saith unto him, `A Levite [am] I, of Beth-Lehem-Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I do find.' |
[9]interrogatus est ab eo under venisset. Qui respondit: Levita sum de Bethlehem Juda, et vado ut habitem ubi potuero, et utile mihi esse perspexero. |
| [10]And Micah saith to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;' and the Levite goeth [in]. |
[10]Dixitque Michas: Mane apud me, et esto mihi parens ac sacerdos: daboque tibi per annos singulos decem argenteos, ac vestem duplicem, et quæ ad victum sunt necessaria. |
| [11]And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons. |
[11]Acquievit, et mansit apud hominem, fuitque illi quasi unus de filiis. |
| [12]And Micah consecrateth the hand of the Levite, and the young man is to him for a priest, and he is in the house of Micah, |
[12]Implevitque Michas manum ejus, et habuit puerum sacerdotem apud se: |
| [13]and Micah saith, `Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.' |
[13]Nunc scio, dicens, quod benefaciet mihi Deus habenti Levitici generis sacerdotem. |