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And Jeroboam built Shechem in the hills of Ephraim and lived in it, and went out from there and built Penuel.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom shall turn back to the house of David;

if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they will kill me and go again to Rehoboam the king of Judah.

And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

And this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, to Dan.

And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah; and he offered on the altar, so he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he made; and he made stand in Bethel thepriests of the high places that he made.