"If therefore when you are offering your gift upon the altar, and there remember that your brother has a grievance against you,

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

"You blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which hallows the offering?

"He then, who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it;

"that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.