“And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.”
And he said to them: ''Micah did such and such for me, and he hired me, and I have become his priest.'' (וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם מִיכָה עָשָׂה עִמָּדִי וַיִּשְׂכֹּרֵנִי וָאֱהִי־לוֹ לְכֹהֵן). The Levite straightforwardly explains his arrangement with Micah: he was hired (וַיִּשְׂכֹּרֵנִי, from שָׂכַר, to hire), receives compensation, and serves as priest. His language is transactional; he makes no claim to legitimate priesthood or covenantal authority, only describes the employment arrangement. The neutrality of his language suggests either naiveté or a conscious minimization of the heterodoxy of his position. The spies now know that Micah has a Levite priest and religious objects in his household shrine.
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