Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something 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 you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift that is on it, he is bound by his oath.'

You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.