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"Ifthispeoplego up to offersacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of thispeople will return to their lord, even to Rehoboamking of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboamking of Judah."
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So the kingconsulted, and madetwogoldencalves, and he said to them, "It is toomuch for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt."
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Jeroboaminstituted a feast in the eighthmonth on the fifteenth*day of the month, like the feastwhich is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calveswhich he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the highplaceswhich he had made.
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Then he went up to the altarwhich he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth*day in the eighthmonth, even in the monthwhich he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burnincense.