If, therefore, you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,

leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, becomes a debtor.

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.