10 And you should appoint Aaron and his sons, and they must take care of their priesthood;+ and any stranger* coming near should be put to death.”+

31 And he began to make a house of high places+ and to make priests from the people in general, who did not happen to be of the sons of Leʹvi.+

33 After this thing Jer·o·boʹam did not turn back from his bad way, but he again went making priests of high places from the people in general.+ As for anyone delighting in it, he would fill his hand with power,*+ [saying]: “And let him become [one of the] priests* of high places.”

9 Have YOU not driven out Jehovah’s priests,+ the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and do YOU not keep making priests for yourselves like the peoples of the lands?+ As for anyone that came and filled his hand with power* by means of a young bull* and seven rams, he became a priest of what are no gods.*+