Gal 4:24-31 | ESV | STEP | Now this may be interpreted allegorically : these women are two covenants . One is from Mount Sinai , bearing children for slavery ; she is Hagar .

aSee Rom. 9:4

b Deut. 33:2

d[Heb. 12:22; Rev. 3:12; 21:2, 10]

eCited from Isa. 54:1

gSee ver. 23

h Rom. 9:8; See ch. 3:29

i Gen. 21:9

jSee ch. 5:11

kCited from Gen. 21:10; [John 8:35]

l[1 Pet. 3:6]

Galatians 4:24-31

24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two ^acovenants. ^bOne is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; ^{▼▼Some manuscripts For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia} she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But ^dthe Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,

^e“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
28 Now you, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts we} brothers, ^glike Isaac, ^hare children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh ⁱpersecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, ^jso also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? ^k“Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but ^lof the free woman.