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26 And Ieroboam thought in his hert: nowe shall the kyngdome returne to the house of Dauid.
27 For yf thys people go vp and do sacrifyce in the house of the Lorde at Ierusalem, then shall the hert of this people turne agayne vnto theyr Lorde Rehoboam kynge of Iuda: and so shall they kyll me, and go agayne to Rehoboam kynge of Iuda.
28 Wherupon the kynge toke councell, and made two calues of golde, and sayde vnto them. It is muche for you to go vp to Hierusalem. Beholde, O Israel: these are thy goddes, which brought you out of the lande of Egypte.
29 And he set the one in bethel, and the other set he in Dan.
30 And this thynge turned to synne. for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan.
31 And he made an housse of hillaultares, and made preastes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.
32 And Ieroboam made a feaste the .xv. daye of the eyght moneth, lyke vnto the feaste that is in Iuda, and offered on the aultare. And so did he in Bethel, to offer vnto the calues that he had made. And he put in Bethel the Preastes of the hyllaultares, which he had made.