24 All this has another meaning as well. Each of the two women stands for one of the agreements God made with his people. Hagar, the slave woman, stands for the agreement that was made at Mount Sinai. Everyone born into her family is a slave.
25 Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and for the present city of Jerusalem. She and her children are slaves.
26 But our mother is the city of Jerusalem in heaven above, and she isn't a slave.
27 The Scriptures say about her,“You have never had children,but now you can be glad.You have never given birth,but now you can shout.Once you had no children,but now you will havemore children than a womanwho has been marriedfor a long time.”
28 My friends, you were born because of this promise, just as Isaac was.
29 But the child who was born in the natural way made trouble for the child who was born because of the Spirit. The same thing is happening today.
30 The Scriptures say, “Get rid of the slave woman and her son! He won't be given anything. The son of the free woman will receive everything.”