19 And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of [a]the books and found it to be fifty thousand [b](A)pieces of silver.

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  1. Acts 19:19 Lit them
  2. Acts 19:19 Prob. Greek drachmas; a drachma was a day’s wages for a laborer

19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.[a]

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  1. Acts 19:19 A drachma was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages.