30 This led to sin;(A) the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.[a](B)

31 Jeroboam also made shrines[b] on the high places(C) and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.(D) 32 Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.(E) He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.(F)

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  1. 12:30 Some LXX mss read calves to Bethel and the other to Dan
  2. 12:31 Lit a house

30 And this thing became a sin;(A) the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.[a]

31 Jeroboam built shrines(B) on high places and appointed priests(C) from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. 32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth(D) month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel,(E) sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.

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  1. 1 Kings 12:30 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text people went to the one as far as Dan