^17:4When he gave the silver back to his mother, she⁸ took two hundred pieces of silver⁹ to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house.¹⁰

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Footnotes

8 Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.
9 The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah’s house.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image and a silver idol, and it was in Micah’s house.

NLTNew Living Translation

So when he returned the money to his mother, she took 200 silver coins and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah’s house.

When he returned the pieces of silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and she gave it to the smith, and he made it into an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah.

KJV 1900King James Version

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

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