^{26 Ref} and Jeroboam saith in his heart, `Now doth the kingdom turn back to the house of David --

^{27 Ref} if this people go up to make sacrifices in the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, then hath the heart of this people turned back unto their lord, unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they have slain me, and turned back unto Rehoboam king of Judah.'

^{28 Ref} And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, `Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

^{29 Ref} And he setteth the one in Beth-El, and the other he hath put in Dan,

^{30 Ref} and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one -- unto Dan.

^{31 Ref} And he maketh the house of high places, and maketh priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;

^{32 Ref} and Jeroboam maketh a festival in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that `is' in Judah, and he offereth on the altar -- so did he in Beth-El -- to sacrifice to the calves which he made, and he hath appointed in Beth-El the priests of the high places that he made.

^{33 Ref} And he offereth up on the altar that he made in Beth-El, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised of his own heart, and he maketh a festival to the sons of Israel, and offereth on the altar -- to make perfume.