Judges 17 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Fuit eo tempore vir quidam de monte Ephraim nomine Michas,
1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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.
2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred 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.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”
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.
3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
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.
4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.
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.
5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6 In diebus illis non erat rex in Israël, sed unusquisque quod sibi rectum videbatur, hoc faciebat.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
7 Fuit quoque alter adolescens de Bethlehem Juda, ex cognatione ejus: eratque ipse Levites, et habitabat ibi.
7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
8 Egressusque de civitate Bethlehem, peregrinari voluit ubicumque sibi commodum reperisset. Cumque venisset in montem Ephraim, iter faciens, et declinasset parumper in domum Michæ,
8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
9 interrogatus est ab eo unde venisset. Qui respondit: Levita sum de Bethlehem Juda, et vado ut habitem ubi potuero, et utile mihi esse perspexero.
9 Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
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.
10 Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
11 Acquievit, et mansit apud hominem, fuitque illi quasi unus de filiis.
11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
12 Implevitque Michas manum ejus, et habuit puerum sacerdotem apud se:
12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
13 Nunc scio, dicens, quod benefaciet mihi Deus habenti Levitici generis sacerdotem.
13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
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Man of the hill country of Ephraim who returned eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, made a graven image, ephod and household idols, and hired a young Levite as his…
Cited in the guide: Judges 17:1; Judges 17:5; Judges 17:12
Cross references (11)
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- 1 Joshua 17:14–18; Joshua 15:9; Judges 18:2; Judges 10:1
- 2 Nehemiah 13:25; Ruth 3:10; Matthew 26:74; 2 John 11; 1 Samuel 23:21
- 3 Exodus 20:4; Leviticus 19:4; Exodus 20:23; Isaiah 66:3; Isaiah 44:9–20
- 4 Isaiah 46:6–7; Jeremiah 10:9–10
- 5 Judges 18:14; Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:30; Judges 8:27; Hosea 3:4
- 6 Deuteronomy 12:8; Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 14:12; Judges 21:25; Judges 19:1
- 7 Matthew 2:1; Micah 5:2; Ruth 1:1–2; Matthew 2:5–6; Joshua 19:15
- 8 Joshua 24:33; Judges 17:11; Nehemiah 13:10–11
- 10 1 Peter 5:2; John 12:6; Ezekiel 13:19; Genesis 45:8; Isaiah 22:21
- 12 Judges 18:30; 1 Kings 13:33–34; 1 Kings 12:31; Numbers 16:5; Numbers 16:8–10
- 13 Romans 10:2–3; Matthew 15:13; John 16:2; Acts 26:9; Isaiah 66:3–4
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