And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah, and he was a Levite. And he stayed there.

And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem-judah, and I go to live where I may find a place.

And Micah said to him, Live with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of clothes, and your food. And the Levite went in.

And the Levite was content to live with the man, and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

And Micah consecrated the Levite. And the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Then Micah said, Now I know that Jehovah will do me good, since I have a Levite as my priest.

When they were at the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite. And they turned in there, and said to him, Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what have you here?

And they turned in that way, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, to the house of Micah, and greeted him.

And it happened in those days, no king being in Israel, there was a certain Levite residing on the far side of Mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.

And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah of Benjamin to stay the night, my concubine and I.