16. Woe to you, blind guides, who say: 'Whoever will have sworn by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gold of the temple is obligated.'
17. You are foolish and blind! For which is greater: the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18. And you say: 'Whoever will have sworn by the altar, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gift that is on the altar is obligated.'
19. How blind you are! For which is greater: the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
20. Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.
21. And whoever will have sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells in it.
22. And whoever swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits upon it.