³³ After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.

⁹ And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

¹⁵ And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

¹³ Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

¹¹ For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

⁴ And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

³⁴ When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

³¹ And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

³² And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

³³ He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.

¹² And Micah gave the position to the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

¹² And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

¹³ Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

⁵ And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you.

¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

⁴¹ These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me.