Galatians 4:21-31

Tree of Life Version

Midrash on Abraham’s Two Sons

²¹ Tell me, you who want to be under Torah, don’t you understand^[a] the Torah? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. ^{[b] 23} But one—the son by the slave woman—was born naturally;^[c] while the other—the son by the free woman—was through the promise. ²⁴ Now these things are being treated allegorically, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, giving birth to slavery—this is Hagar. ²⁵ But this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free—she is our mother. ²⁷ For it is written:

²⁸ Now you, brothers and sisters—like Isaac, you are children of promise. ²⁹ But just as at that time the one born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Ruach, so it is now. ³⁰ But what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son”^[e] of the free woman. ³¹ So then, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.