If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then, after coming, bring thy gift.

And, Whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gift upon it, he is obligated.

Ye foolish and blind men, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it.

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.