³⁰ Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.^(A)

²⁴ These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. ²⁵ Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

⁹ But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham^(A) was mocking,^(B)