AND Jesus being born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold Magi came from the East to Jerusalem, saying,

Then Herod, calling the Magi secretly, asked them the precise time when the star appeared;

Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi.

And there was a man by the name of Simon who formerly practised magic in that city, and astonished the nation of Samaria, saying that he was some great person,

And they attended to him because for a long time he had astonished them with his magic arts.

idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies,

and did not change their minds [to turn] from their murders, nor from their magic arts, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

and the light of a candle shall shine in you no more, and the voice of a bridegroom and of a bride shall be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for all nations were deceived by your magic arts,