7A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,


In Context

4 So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into the image and the idol. And they were put in Micah's house.

5 Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some idols and installed one of his sons as his priest.

6 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.

7 A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

8 left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.

9 Micah asked him, "Where are you from?" "I'm a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah," he said, "and I'm looking for a place to stay."

Judges 17:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:7There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he is a Levite, and he is a sojourner there.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.