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

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

And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is bound.

You fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Whoever therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by all things thereon.

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.