And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest; and I will give you ten pieces of silver by the year, and a change of clothing, and your living.

The leech had three dearly beloved daughters, and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough.

Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his [will].

And they have dishonored Me before My people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while you speak to a people hearing vain speeches.

Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

I have desired the silver or gold or clothes of no one.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who are mindful of earthly things.

And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.

They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

but he was rebuked for his own lawlessness: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.