¹⁹ Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.

⁸ But ^(A)Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) ^[a]withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

²⁵ You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not ^(A)covet^[a] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. ²⁶ Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, ^(B)for it is an ^[b]accursed thing.

^20 (A)Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign ^[a]gods which were in their hands, and the ^(A)earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under ^(B)the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

⁶ Now when they had gone through ^[a]the island to Paphos, they found ^(A)a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus,

The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith

⁹ But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously ^(A)practiced ^[a]sorcery in the city and ^(B)astonished the ^[b]people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, ¹⁰ to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.” ¹¹ And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his ^[c]sorceries for a long time.

^2 (A)Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.