²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in ^(A)Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

²⁹ And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. ³⁰ Then ^(A)this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.^{[a] 31} He also made ^(B)temples on high places and ^(C)appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. ³² And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like ^(D)the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel ^(E)the priests of the high places that he had made.

¹⁴ Let them alone; ^(A)they are blind guides.^[a] And ^(B)if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”