1 Kings 12:30-33

Contemporary English Version

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.