1. There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah.
2. He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you utter a curse about — here, I have the silver with me. I took it. So now I return it to you.” Then his mother said, “My son, you are blessed by the Lord! ”
3. He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”
4. So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver, and it was in Micah’s house.
5. This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.
6. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.