Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee,

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

And, Whoever sweareth by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, is bound.

Blind men! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar flint sanctifieth the gift?

He then who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it;

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

And if I send them away fasting to their houses, they will faint on the road; and some of them have come from altar.

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

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, "To an unknown God." What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.

Do ye not know, that they who minister in the offerings of the temple live from the temple? that they who serve at the altar share with the altar?

Look at Israel by natural descent. Have not those who eat of the sacrifices, communion with the altar?

For he of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, of which no one hath given attendance at the altar;

which had the golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, wherein was the golden pot containing the manna, and the rod of Aaron which budded, and the tables of the covenant;

We have an altar, of which they cannot eat who serve the tabernacle.

Was not Abraham our father accepted as righteous through works, when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony which they had borne;

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

And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth; and there followed thunders, and lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake.

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

And there was given me a reed like to a staff, a voice saying: Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein;

And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire; and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the grapes of the earth are fully ripe.

And I heard the altar saying, Even so, Lord God Almighty! true and righteous are thy judgments.