Galatians 4:24 meaning and explanation

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:24, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul writes to Gentile believers in Galatia who are being pressured to take up circumcision and the Mosaic law. He has just retold Abraham's story: Hagar the slave woman bore Ishmael, and Sarah the free woman bore Isaac through promise.

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