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

leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift.

You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.'

You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it;

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.