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30 The people sinned because they started going to these places to worship.

31 Jeroboam built small places of worship at the shrines[a] and appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to serve as priests. 32-33 (A) He also decided to start a new festival for the Israelites on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just like the one in Judah.[b] On that day, Jeroboam went to Bethel and offered sacrifices on the altar to the gold calf he had put there. Then he assigned the priests their duties.

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Footnotes

  1. 12.31 shrines: See the note at 3.2.
  2. 12.32,33 the one in Judah: This probably refers to the Festival of Shelters.

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