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New King James Version (NKJV)

Judges 17
⁷ Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah; he was a Levite, and was staying there.
⁸ The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
⁹ And Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" So he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am on my way to find a place to stay."
¹⁰ Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance." So the Levite went in.
¹¹ Then the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became like one of his sons to him.
¹² So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and lived in the house of Micah.
¹³ Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!"
Judges 18
¹ In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inheritance among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them.
² So the children of Dan sent five men of their family from their territory, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and search it. They said to them, "Go, search the land." So they went to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
³ While they were at the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. They turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What do you have here?"
⁴ He said to them, "Thus and so Micah did for me. He has hired me, and I have become his priest."