If, therefore, you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you,

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

'And whosoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor!'

Ye blind! for which is greater??he gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

He, therefore, who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it;

that upon you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.