| 1 καὶ ἐγένετο ἀνὴρ ἐξ ὄρους Εφραιμ καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Μιχα 2 καὶ εἶπεν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ χιλίους καὶ ἑκατὸν ἀργυρίου τοὺς λημφθέντας σοι καὶ ἐξώρκισας καὶ εἶπας ἐν τοῖς ὠσίν μου ἰδοὺ τὸ ἀργύριον πα{R'} ἐμοί ἐγὼ ἔλαβον αὐτό καὶ εἶπεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ εὐλογημένος ὁ υἱός μου τῷ κυρίῳ 3 καὶ ἀπέδωκεν τοὺς χιλίους καὶ ἑκατὸν τοῦ ἀργυρίου τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ ἁγιασμῷ ἡγίασα τὸ ἀργύριον τῷ κυρίῳ ἐκ τῆς χειρός μου κατὰ μόνας τοῦ ποιῆσαι γλυπτὸν καὶ χωνευτόν καὶ νῦν ἐπιστρέψω αὐτά σοι καὶ ἀποδώσω σοι αὐτό 4 καὶ ἀπέδωκεν τὸ ἀργύριον τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔλαβεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ διακοσίους τοῦ ἀργυρίου καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸ τῷ χωνευτῇ καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὸ γλυπτὸν καὶ χωνευτόν καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Μιχα 5 καὶ ὁ ἀνὴρ Μιχα αὐτῷ οἶκος θεοῦ καὶ ἐποίησεν εφουδ καὶ θεραφιν καὶ ἐνέπλησεν τὴν χεῖρα ἑνὸς τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐγενήθη αὐτῷ εἰς ἱερέα 6 ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις οὐκ ἦν βασιλεὺς ἐν Ισραηλ ἀνὴρ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐποίει |
1 Now turn we to a man called Michas, who lived at this same time in the hill-country of Ephraim. 2 His mother had lost eleven hundred silver pieces, which she had set aside; and when, in his presence, she pronounced a curse on the thief, he told her, I have the money, I took it for myself.[1] No curse, then, said she, but a blessing from the Lord on this son of mine. 3 And she told him, as he gave it back to her, I solemnly dedicate this sum of money to the Lord, promising him that my son shall have it from me, to make himself a graven image, with a sheath of cast metal. So now after all it is thine. 4 Then she took out two hundred of the pieces so restored, and gave them to a silversmith, to be melted down into the sheath of a carved image; and there the image stood, in the house of Michas.[2] 5 He set apart a shrine for the worship of God,[3] furnished it with vestments and household deities and installed one of his sons as the priest of it. 6 (This was in the old days of Israel before the monarchy, when men lived by the best light they had.) |
1 Fuit eo tempore vir quidam de monte Ephraim nomine Michas, 2 qui dixit matri suæ: Mille et centum argenteos, quos separaveras tibi, et super quibus me audiente juraveras, ecce ego habeo, et apud me sunt. Cui illa respondit: Benedictus filius meus Domino. 3 Reddidit ergo eos matri suæ, quæ dixerat ei: Consecravi et vovi hoc argentum Domino, ut de manu mea suscipiat filius meus, et faciat sculptile atque conflatile: et nunc trado illud tibi. 4 Reddidit igitur eos matri suæ: quæ tulit ducentos argenteos, et dedit eos argentario, ut faceret ex eis sculptile atque conflatile, quod fuit in domo Michæ. 5 Qui ædiculam quoque in ea deo separavit, et fecit ephod, et theraphim, id est, vestem sacerdotalem, et idola: implevitque unius filiorum suorum manum, et factus est ei sacerdos. 6 In diebus illis non erat rex in Israël, sed unusquisque quod sibi rectum videbatur, hoc faciebat. |