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1 Kings 12 📜 📕 ↷
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now will the Kingdom return to the house of David,📜💬📚
27 if this people shall go up to make sacrifices in the house of our Lord into Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will be turned to their lord Roboam the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.📜💬📚
28 And finding out a devise he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go up no more into Jerusalem: Behold thy gods Israel, which brought thee out of the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
29 And he put one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:📜💬📚
30 and this thing was an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf, as far as Dan.📜💬📚
31 And he made temples in the excelses, and Priests of the abjects of the people, which were not of the children of Levi.📜💬📚
32 And he appointed a solemn day in the eight month, the fifteenth day of the month, after the similitude of the solemnity, that was celebrated in Juda. And going up he made in like manner an altar in Bethel, to immolate to the calves, which he had framed: and he ordained in Bethel priests of the excelses, which he had made.📜💬📚
33 And he went upon the altar, which he had built in Bethel, the fifteenth day of the eight month, which he had forged out of his own heart: and he made a solemnity to the children of Israel, and went up upon the altar, to burn incense.📜💬📚
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