Therefore if you may bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

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

And, Whosoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gift upon it, is debtor.

Ye blind: for which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?

Therefore the one swearing by the altar, swears by it, and by all things which are on it.

in order that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of the blessed, whom they slew between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.