So if, in the very act of presenting your gift at the altar, you remember that your brother has something against you,

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar is not duty-bound, but whoever swears by the offering on the altar is duty-bound!'

You blind men! which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred?

So whoever swears by the altar swears by everything on it;

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.