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He said to his mother, ‘The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you place a curse on – here’s the silver. I took it.’

Then his mother said, ‘My son, may you be blessed by the Lord! ’(A)

He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, ‘I personally consecrate(B) the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image and a silver idol.[a] I will give it back to you.’ So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took 2.5 kilograms of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image and a silver idol, and it was in Micah’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:3 Or image and a cast image, also in v. 4