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24 These two women are like pictures of two agreements that God made with his people. Hagar is like the agreement that God made on Sinai mountain.[a] That agreement causes people to become slaves. 25 Hagar is like a picture of Sinai mountain in Arabia.[b] Also, she is like the city of Jerusalem here on earth now, because that city and its people are slaves under the authority of God's Law.

26 But Abraham's wife, Sarah, is a picture of the new Jerusalem that is above. Sarah was a free person, not a slave, and she is like our mother.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:24 Sinai mountain was the place where God gave his Law to Israel's people. God's agreement with his people at that time was that they must obey all the rules in his Law. So Israel's people were like slaves under the authority of God's Law.
  2. 4:25 Arabia was south and east from Israel.