²⁹ He set up one in Bethel,^(A) and put the other in Dan.^(B)

³² Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.^(A) He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.^{(B) 33} He offered sacrifices on^[a] the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own.^(C) He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.^(D)