of the market has now taken over most other human transactions. Any organization worth its salt is supposed to exist by an internal market. This means that each and any transaction must be costed and should only occur if a price is put upon it.’20 This is how Micah’s speaker sees his relationship to God. As soon as these words were out of his mouth, the person knows that with God it does not and cannot work like that: ‘Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the