If, therefore, you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you,

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

'And whosoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor!'

Ye blind! for which is greater??he gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

He, therefore, who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it;

that upon you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

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

that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed from the founding of the world, may be required of this generation??51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the house??ea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.'

for, passing through, and considering your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which had been inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What, therefore, in ignorance ye worship, this I declare to you.

Know ye not that those who are occupied upon sacred things eat of the things of the temple? and that those who wait at the altar partake with the altar?

Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

For He of Whom these things are spoken hath taken part in a different tribe from which no one gave attendance at the altar.

We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

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

And, when He opened the fifth seal, I saw, underneath the altar, the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they were holding.

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

And the angel has taken the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it to the earth; and there followed thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

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

And there was given to me a reed, like a staff, one Saying, "Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those worshipping therein.

And another angel came forth out from the altar, he that has authority over the fire; and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; because her grapes were ripe."

And I heard another out of the altar, saying, "Yea, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments."