Richter 17 | English Standard Version

Micah and the Levite

1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that 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.” 3 And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.” 4 So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained* one of his sons, who became his priest. 6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. 7 Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 8 And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah. 9 And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.” 10 And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in. 11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons. 12 And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. 13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”

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1 در كوهستان افرايم مردی به نام ميخا زندگی میكرد. 2 روزی او به مادرش گفت: «آن هزار و صد مثقال نقرهای را كه فكر میكردی از تو دزديدهاند و من شنيدم كه دزدش را نفرين میكردی، نزد من است، من آن را برداشتهام.» مادرش گفت: «چون تو اعتراف كردی، خداوند تو را بركت خواهد داد.» 3 پس وی آن مقدار نقرهای را كه دزديده بود، به مادرش پس داد. مادرش گفت: «من اين نقره را وقف خداوند مینمايم و از آن يک بت نقرهای برای تو تهيه میكنم تا اين لعنت از تو دور شود.» 4 پس مادرش دويست مثقال از آن نقره را گرفته، پيش زرگر برد و دستور داد با آن بتی بسازد. بت ساخته شد و در خانهٔ ميخا گذاشته شد. ميخا در خانهاش علاوه بر بتهای متعدد، ايفود* نيز داشت. او يكی از پسرانش را به كاهنی بتخانهٔ خود تعيين نمود. 6 در آن زمان بنیاسرائيل پادشاهی نداشت و هر کس هر کاری را كه دلش میخواست انجام میداد. 7 يک روز جوانی از قبيلهٔ لاوی كه اهل بيتلحم يهودا بود شهر خود را ترک گفت تا جای مناسبی برای زندگی پيدا كند. در طول سفر به خانهٔ ميخا در كوهستان افرايم رسيد. 9 ميخا از او پرسيد: «اهل كجا هستی؟» او گفت: «من از قبيلهٔ لاوی و اهل بيتلحم يهودا هستم و میخواهم جای مناسبی برای سكونت پيدا كنم.» 10 ميخا گفت: «اگر بخواهی میتوانی پيش من بمانی و كاهن من باشی. ساليانه ده مثقال نقره، يک دست لباس و خوراک به تو خواهم داد.» آن لاوی جوان موافقت كرد و پيش او ماند. ميخا او را چون يكی از پسرانش میدانست 12 و وی را كاهن خود تعيين نمود و او در منزل ميخا سكونت گزيد. 13 ميخا گفت: «حال كه از قبيلهٔ لاوی كاهنی برای خود دارم، میدانم كه خداوند مرا بركت خواهد داد.»

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Micah and the Levite

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