When therefore you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has reason to be displeas'd with you:

leave your gift before the altar, go, and first of all reconcile yourself to your brother; then come to offer your gift.

again, if any one swear by the altar he is under no engagement but if he swear by the gift that is upon it, he is bound thereby.

ye blind fools, which is most sacred, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

whoever swears by the altar, swears not only by the altar, but by every thing upon it.

so that you maybe charg'd with all the innocent blood shed upon earth, from the blood of Abel the just, unto the blood of Zacharias, the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.