King James Version (KJV)
Judges 17:8
“And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.”
Verse in context — Judges 17
In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
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