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25 Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is[a] a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people. 26 (A)But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother. 27 (B)For the scripture says,

“Be happy, you childless woman!
    Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth!
For the woman who was deserted will have more children
    than the woman whose husband never left her.”

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:25 Hagar … is; some manuscripts have Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, and it is.

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