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25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children. 26 But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.[a] 27 For it is written,

“Rejoice, you childless woman,
    who cannot give birth to any children!
Break into song and shout,
    you who feel no pains of childbirth!
For the children of the deserted woman
    are more numerous than the children
        of the woman who has a husband.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:26 Other mss. read the mother of us all
  2. Galatians 4:27 Isa 54:1