¹Zvino kwakanga kuno murume panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu, wainzi Mika.

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

²Iye akati kuna mai vake, Mashekeri aya esirivha ane gumi ramazana nezana rimwe amakabirwa, mukatuka mubi wazvo, mukataurawo izvozvo ini ndichizvinzwa, tarirai sirivha iyeyo iri kwandiri; ndini ndakaitora. Ipapo mai vake vakati, Mwanakomana wangu ngaaropafadzwe naJehovha!

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.`

³Akadzosera mashekeri esirivha ane gumi ramazana nezana rimwe kuna mai vake; mai vake vakati, Zvirokwazvo, sirivha iyi ndinoitsaurira Jehovha, kuti mwanakomana wangu aite nayo mufananidzo wakavezwa nomufananidzo wakaumbwa; naizvozvo zvino ndichakudzosera iyo.

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.`

⁴Zvino wakati adzosera mari iyo kuna mai vake, mai vake vakatora mashekeri esirivha ana mazana maviri, akaapa muumbi, iye akaita nawo mufananidzo wakavezwa nomufananidzo wakaumbwa; zvikagara mumba maMika.

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.

⁵Zvino murume uyu Mika wakange ane imba yavamwari, akaita efodhi neterafimi, akagadza mumwe wavanakomana vake kuti ave mupristi wake.

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;

⁶Pamazuva iwayo kwakanga kusina mambo pakati pavaIsiraeri; munhu mumwe nomumwe waiita sezvaakafunga kuti ndizvo zvakanaka.

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

⁷Zvino kwakanga kune jaya raibva Bheterehemu-judha, weimba yaJudha, waiva muRevhi, wakange agerepo.

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.

⁸Murume uyu akabva paguta, paBheterehemu-judha, kundozvitsvakira nzvimbo yokugara; pakufamba kwake akasvika panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu paimba yaMika.

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.

⁹Mika akati kwaari, Wabvepiko? Iye akati kwaari, Ndiri muRevhi weBheterehemu-judha, ndinotsvaka kwandingagara.

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.`

¹⁰Mika akati kwaari, Gara neni, uve baba vangu nomupristi wangu, ndikupe mashekeri esirivha ane gumi pagore nenguvo dzokupfeka nezvokudya zvako. Ipapo muRevhi akapinda.

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].

¹¹MuRevhi akatenda kugara nomunhu uyu; jaya rikava somumwe wavanakomana vake.

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

¹²Mika akagadza muRevhi, jaya iro rikava mupristi wake, akagara mumba maMika.

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,

¹³Zvino Mika akati, Ndinoziva kuti Jehovha uchandiitira zvakanaka, zvandava nomupristi wangu ari muRevhi.

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