'If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

'He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;

that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

And there appeared to him a messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of the perfume,

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,

we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving,

Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held,

and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne,

and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast it to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, 'Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;

and another messenger did come forth out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, 'Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because come to perfection have her grapes;'

and I heard another out of the altar, saying, 'Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments.'