Therefore, if thou bring thine offering to the altar, and there remembrest that thy brother hath any complaint against thee;

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

And, If any one swear by the altar, it is nothing; but if any one swear by the gift upon it, he is bound.

O foolish and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifieth the gift?

He then, that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it and by all things upon it:

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.