Matthew 23:17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
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- Matthew 23:19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Numbers 16:38–39 even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.” Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
- Exodus 30:26–28 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.