Galatians 4:25-27

Contemporary English Version

²⁵Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia^[a] and for the present city of Jerusalem. She^[b] and her children are slaves.

²⁶^(A) But our mother is the city of Jerusalem in heaven above, and she isn't a slave. ²⁷^(B) 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 have
more children than a woman
who has been married
    for a long time.”

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Footnotes

4.25 Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia: Some manuscripts have “Sinai is a mountain in Arabia.” This sentence would then be translated: “Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, and Hagar stands for the present city of Jerusalem.”
4.25 She: “Hagar” or “Jerusalem.”