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21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
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These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
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For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
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Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
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At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
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But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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