To show partiality is not good; but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
Judges 18:4 - Revised Standard Version And he said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And he said to them, Thus and thus Micah deals with me and has hired me, and I am his priest. American Standard Version (1901) And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest. Common English Bible “Micah has done a lot for me,” he replied to them. “He hired me to be his personal priest.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he answered them, "Micah has offered me one thing and another, and he has paid me wages, so that I may be his priest." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He answered them: Michas hath done such and such things for me, and hath hired me to be his priest. |
To show partiality is not good; but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.
Oh, that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire upon my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.
no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money.
they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.
And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living.”
And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”