Galatians 4:24

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“These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.”

— WEB

“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.”

— KJV

“Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.”

— ASV

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Genesis 21:9-13 "Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking."
Genesis 16:8 "He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sar…"
Hosea 11:10 "They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west."
Genesis 25:12 "Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham."
1 Corinthians 10:11 "Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come."
Genesis 16:15-16 "Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael."
Hebrews 10:15-18 "The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,"
Hebrews 12:24 "to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,Jeremiah 31:31 and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel."

Commentary

are an allegory--rather, "are allegorical," that is, have another besides the literal meaning. these are the two covenants--"these [women] are (that is, mean; omit 'the' with all the oldest manuscripts) two covenants." As among the Jews the bondage of the mother determined that of the child, the children of the free covenant of promise, answering to Sarah, are free; the children of the legal covenant of bondage are not so. one from--that is, taking his origin from Mount Sinai. Hence, it appears, he is treating of the moral law (Gal 3:19) chiefly (Heb 12:18). Paul was familiar with the district of Sinai in Arabia (Gal 1:17), having gone thither after his conversion. At the gloomy scene of the giving of the Law, he learned to appreciate, by contrast, the grace of the Gospel, and so to cast off all his past legal dependencies. which gendereth--that is, bringing forth children unto bondage. Compare the phrase (Act 3:25), "children of the covenant which God made . . . saying unto Abraham." Agar--that is, Hagar.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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