If, therefore, you offer your gift on the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,

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

If a man swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if be swears by the gift which is on it, he is bound.

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

He then that swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it;

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