"If therefore when you are offering your gift upon the altar, and there remember that your brother has a grievance against you,

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

"You blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which hallows the offering?

"He then, who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it;

"that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

"For as I was passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What you are worshiping in ignorance, this I am proclaiming to you.

You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?

Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

He who is thus described belonged to another tribe, not one member of which has ever served at the altar.

In it was the golden altar of incense, and also the Ark of the Covenant covered all over with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar?

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

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and a great quantity of incense was given him to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne.

Then the angel took the censer, and he filled it with fire from the altar, and poured it upon the earth; and there followed thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake.

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet; and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

And there was given me a reed like to a rod, and a voice said to me. "Go and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who are worshiping therein.

And another angel came from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle, And gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, For its grapes are fully ripe."

And I heard the altar saying, "Yea, O Lord, the Almighty, True and righteous are thy judgments."