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.
"Consecrated one of his sons ... his priest"  (Judges 17:5).  "The Hebrew here rendered `consecrated' is actually `filled the hand of.'"[17] "This was the regular God-given formula for the investiture of priests  (Exodus 29:35;  Leviticus 8:33)."[18]  Thus, we have five references to the Pentateuch in as many verses, indicating, not merely, the existence of the Pentateuch long prior to the times of Joshua and Othniel, but also the general acquaintance of the Israelites with its provisions, especially with those procedures in which they were particularly interested.