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


In Context

4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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

8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

9 Micah said to him, |Where did you come from?| He said to him, |I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.|

Judges 17:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:7A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

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 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.