Therefore if you may bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

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

And, Whosoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gift upon it, is debtor.

Ye blind: for which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?

Therefore the one swearing by the altar, swears by it, and by all things which are on it.

in order that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of the blessed, whom they slew between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.

the angel of the Lord appeared unto him standing on the right hand of the altar of incense:

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

For going through, and seeing your devotions, I also found an altar on which it was superscribed, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore I now preach unto you Him whom you are ignorantly worshiping.

Do you not know that those working in the sacrifices eat those things of the temple; and those serving the altar partake of the altar?

See Israel after the flesh: are not all eating the sacrifices communicants of the altar?

For he unto whom these things were spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one ministers at the altar:

having the golden altar, and the ark of the covenant overladen on all sides with gold, in which was the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron which budded, and the tables of the covenant;

We have an altar, from which those ministering in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw beneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain on account of the word of God, and the testimony which they had.

And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, that he shall offer with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which is before the throne.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it to the earth: and there were thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

And a reed like a rod was given unto me: saying, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those worshiping in it.

and another angel came out from the altar, having power over the fire; and he called with a great voice to the one having the sharp sickle, Send in thy sharp sickle, and reap the clusters of the vintage of the earth; because her grapes are fully ripe.

And I heard one speaking from the altar, Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.