Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything 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, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is a debtor!

Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Therefore whoever shall swear by the altar swears by it, and by all things on it.

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