23. “If, then, you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother holds whatever against you,
24. leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first make peace with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25. “Be well-minded with your opponent, promptly, while you are on the way with him, lest your opponent deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
26. “Truly, I say to you, you shall by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.
27. “You heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
28. “But I say to you that everyone looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29. “And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into Gehenna.
30. “And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into Gehenna.
31. “And it has been said, ‘Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
32. “But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.
33. “Again, you heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to יהוה.’
34. “But I say to you, do not swear at all, neither by the heaven, because it is Elohim’s throne;
35. nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Yerushalayim, for it is the city of the great Sovereign;
36. nor swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.
37. “But let your word ‘Yea’ be ‘Yea,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ And what goes beyond these is from the wicked one.
38. “You heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’