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THE BOOK OF
JUDGES
CHAPTER 17
  5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an aephod, and bteraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his cpriest.

Footnotes
5a
Judg. 8: 27.
  27 And Gideon made an aephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a bsnare unto Gideon, and to his house.
b
IE domestic idols, perhaps in size and shape of a man.
Judg. 18: 18 (18, 20)
  18 And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the ateraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
1 Sam. 19: 13 (13, 16)
  13 And Michal took an aimage, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
c
Judg. 18: 19 (1, 19-20)
  19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine ahand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a bpriest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?