1Havia um homem chamado Mica, dos montes de Efraim,2que disse certa vez à sua mãe: “Os treze quilos* de prata que foram roubados de você e pelos quais eu a ouvi pronunciar uma maldição, na verdade a prata está comigo; eu a peguei”. Disse-lhe sua mãe: “O SENHOR o abençoe, meu filho!”3Quando ele devolveu os treze quilos de prata à mãe, ela disse: “Consagro solenemente a minha prata ao SENHOR para que o meu filho faça uma imagem esculpida e um ídolo de metal. Eu a devolvo a você”.4Mas ele devolveu a prata à sua mãe, e ela separou dois quilos e quatrocentos gramas, e os deu a um ourives, que deles fez a imagem e o ídolo. E estes foram postos na casa de Mica.5Ora, esse homem, Mica, possuía um santuário, fez um manto sacerdotal e alguns ídolos da família e pôs um dos seus filhos como seu sacerdote.6Naquela época, não havia rei em Israel; cada um fazia o que lhe parecia certo.7Um jovem levita de Belém de Judá, procedente do clã de Judá,8saiu daquela cidade em busca de outro lugar para morar. Em sua viagem*, chegou à casa de Mica, nos montes de Efraim.9Mica lhe perguntou: “De onde você vem?” “Sou levita, de Belém de Judá”, respondeu ele. “Estou procurando um lugar para morar.”10“Fique comigo”, disse-lhe Mica. “Seja meu pai e sacerdote, e eu darei a você cento e vinte gramas de prata por ano, roupas e comida.”11O jovem levita concordou em ficar com Mica, e tornou-se como um dos seus filhos.12Mica acolheu o levita, e o jovem se tornou seu sacerdote, e ficou morando em sua casa.13E Mica disse: “Agora sei que o SENHOR me tratará com bondade, pois esse levita se tornou meu sacerdote”.
English Standard Version
Micah and the Levite
1There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.2And 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.”3And 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.”4So 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.5And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained* one of his sons, who became his priest.6In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.7Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.8And 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.9And 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.”10And 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.11And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.12And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.13Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”
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