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25 Hagar is like a picture of Sinai mountain in Arabia.[a] Also, she is like the city of Jerusalem here on earth now, because that city and its people are slaves under the authority of God's Law.

26 But Abraham's wife, Sarah, is a picture of the new Jerusalem that is above. Sarah was a free person, not a slave, and she is like our mother. 27 It says in the Bible:

‘Be happy, you woman who could not have any children!
    You have never known the pain of a child's birth.
    But now shout loudly because you are so happy!
Yes, be happy, because the lonely woman now has more children
    than the woman who has a husband.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:25 Arabia was south and east from Israel.
  2. 4:27 See Isaiah 54:1.