6. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
7. Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah; he was a Levite, and was staying there.
8. The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
9. And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?”So he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am on my way to find a place to stay.”
10. Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.