'If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

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

And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

'He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;

that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: