Judges 17:12

17:12 Micah paid ¹  the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

Judges 18:4

18:4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, ²  “He hired me and I became his priest.”

[17:12]  ¹ tn Heb “filled the hand of.”

[18:4]  ² tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.