¹A bol istý muž s vrchu Efraimovho, ktorému bolo meno Mícha.

¹And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Micah,

²Ten povedal svojej matke: Tých tisíc a sto šeklov striebra, ktoré ti vzali, a pre ktoré si ty kliala a vravela tak, že som to i ja počul, hľa, striebro je u mňa; ja som ho vzal: Vtedy povedala jeho matka: Nech je požehnaný môj syn Hospodinovi!

²and he saith to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of thine, and [of which] thou hast sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver [is] with me, I have taken it;` and his mother saith, `Blessed [is] my son of Jehovah.`

³A tak navrátil tisíc a sto šeklov striebra svojej matke. A jeho matka povedala: Zasvätiť zasväcujem to striebro Hospodinovi zo svojej ruky za svojho syna, spraviť rytý a liaty obraz, a tak ho teraz vraciam tebe.

³And he giveth back the eleven hundred silverlings to his mother, and his mother saith, `I had certainly sanctified the silver to Jehovah, from my hand, for my son, to make a graven image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to thee.`

⁴A tedy vrátil striebro svojej matke. A jeho matka vzala dvesto šeklov striebra a dala ho zlatníkovi, ktorý z neho spravil rytý a liaty obraz, a bolo to v dome Míchovom.

⁴And he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred silverlings, and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.

⁵A tedy muž Mícha mal dom bohov a spravil efod a domácich bohov a naplnil ruku jedného zo svojich synov, vysvätil ho, a bol mu kňazom.

⁵As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;

⁶V tých dňoch nebolo kráľa v Izraelovi; každý robil to, čo bolo správne v jeho očiach.

⁶in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth.

⁷A bol nejaký mládenec z Betlehema Júdovho, z čeľade Júdovej; bol to Levita a pohostínil tam.

⁷And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he [is] a Levite, and he [is] a sojourner there.

⁸A človek odišiel z toho mesta, z Betlehema Júdovho, aby pohostínil tam, kde by našiel príhodné miesto. A tak prišiel na vrch Efraimov až po dom Míchov idúc svojou cestou.

⁸And the man goeth out of the city, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah, to sojourn where he doth find, and cometh to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, to work his way.

⁹A Mícha mu povedal: Odkiaľ ideš? A on mu odpovedal: Som Levita z Betlehema Júdovho a idem pohostíniť tam, kde najdem príhodné miesto.

⁹And Micah saith to him, `Whence comest thou?` and he saith unto him, `A Levite [am] I, of Beth-Lehem-Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I do find.`

¹⁰Na to mu povedal Mícha: Bývaj u mňa a buď mi za otca a za kňaza, a ja ti dám desať šeklov striebra na rok ako i potrebný odev a tvoju stravu. A Levita išiel.

¹⁰And Micah saith to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;` and the Levite goeth [in].

¹¹Tak svolil Levita bývať s mužom, a mládenec mu bol ako jeden z jeho synov.

¹¹And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons.

¹²A Mícha naplnil ruku Levitu, a mládenec mu bol za kňaza a bol v dome Míchovom.

¹²And Micah consecrateth the hand of the Levite, and the young man is to him for a priest, and he is in the house of Micah,

¹³A Mícha povedal: Teraz viem, že mi Hospodin učiní dobre, pretože mám tohoto Levitu za kňaza.

¹³and Micah saith, `Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.`