So when you are presenting your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother has any grievance against you,

leave your gift right there before the altar and go and make up with your brother; then come back and present your gift.

You say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the offering that is on it, it is binding.'

You blind men! Which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred?

Anyone who swears by the altar is swearing by it and by everything that is on it,

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!