A curse on you, you blind leaders who say, 'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is not duty-bound, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is duty-bound.'

You blind fools! which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

whoever swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who dwells in 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.

And at once the curtain of the sanctuary was torn from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split,