24 These things are an allegory, for these are the two covenants. The one is from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to bondage; she is Hagar.
25 Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our mother.
27 For it is written: “Rejoice, barren womanwho does not bear;break forth and shout,you who have no labor pains!For the desolate has many more childrenthan she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are the children of promise.
29 But as it was then, he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, so it is now also.
30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.”