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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Micah and the Levite. 1There was
a man from the mountain region of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
2* He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver
that were taken from you, about which you pronounced a curse and
even said it in my hearing—I have that silver. I took it. So now
I will restore it to you.” Then his mother said, “May my son be
blessed by the LORD!” 3When he restored the eleven hundred
pieces of silver to his mother, she said, “I consecrate the
silver to the LORD from my own hand on behalf of my son to make
an idol overlaid with silver.”* a 4So when he restored the
silver to his mother, she took two hundred pieces and gave them
to the silversmith, who made of them an idol overlaid with
silver. So it remained in the house of Micah. 5The man Micah had
a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim,* b and installed
one of his sons, who became his priest.c 6* In those days there
was no king in Is