Judges 17
1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
| در کوهستان افرایم مردی به نام میخا زندگی می‌کرد. |
2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May the LORD bless my son!”
| روزی او به مادرش گفت: «آن هزار و صد مثقال نقره‌ای را که فکر می‌کردی از تو دزدیده‌اند و من شنیدم که دزدش را نفرین می‌کردی، نزد من است، من آن را برداشته‌ام.» مادرش گفت: «چون تو اعتراف کردی، خداوند تو را برکت خواهد داد.» |
3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
| پس میخا آن مقدار نقره را که دزدیده بود، به مادرش پس داد. مادرش گفت: «من این نقره را وقف خداوند می‌نمایم و از آن یک بت نقره‌ای برای تو تهیه می‌کنم تا این لعنت از تو دور شود.» |
4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.
| پس مادرش دویست مثقال از آن نقره را گرفته، پیش زرگر برد و دستور داد با آن بُتی بسازد. بت ساخته شد و در خانهٔ میخا گذاشته شد. میخا در خانه‌اش علاوه بر بتها، ایفود نیز داشت. او یکی از پسرانش را به کاهنی بتخانهٔ خود تعیین نمود. |
5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
| در آن زمان بنی‌اسرائیل پادشاهی نداشت و هر کس هر کاری را که دلش می‌خواست انجام می‌داد. |
7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
| یک روز جوانی از قبیلهٔ لاوی که اهل بیت‌لحم یهودا بود شهر خود را ترک گفت تا جای مناسبی برای زندگی پیدا کند. در طول سفر به خانهٔ میخا در کوهستان افرایم رسید. |
8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
9 Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
| میخا از او پرسید: «اهل کجا هستی؟» او گفت: «من از قبیلهٔ لاوی و اهل بیت‌لحم یهودا هستم و می‌خواهم جای مناسبی برای سکونت پیدا کنم.» |
10 Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
| میخا گفت: «اگر بخواهی می‌توانی پیش من بمانی و کاهن من باشی. سالیانه ده مثقال نقره، یک دست لباس و خوراک به تو خواهم داد.» آن لاوی جوان موافقت کرد و پیش او ماند. میخا او را چون یکی از پسرانش می‌دانست |
11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
| و وی را کاهن خود تعیین نمود و او در منزل میخا سکونت گزید. |
13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
| میخا گفت: «حال که از قبیلهٔ لاوی کاهنی برای خود دارم، می‌دانم که خداوند مرا برکت خواهد داد.» |
