Galatians 4:24
ContextNETBible | These things may be treated as an allegory, 1 for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. |
NIV © biblegateway Gal 4:24 |
These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. |
NASB © biblegateway Gal 4:24 |
This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar. |
NLT © biblegateway Gal 4:24 |
Now these two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. Hagar, the slave–wife, represents Mount Sinai where people first became enslaved to the law. |
MSG © biblegateway Gal 4:24 |
This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. |
BBE © SABDAweb Gal 4:24 |
Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar. |
NRSV © bibleoremus Gal 4:24 |
Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery. |
NKJV © biblegateway Gal 4:24 |
which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar–– |
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GREEK | atina estin gar eisin diayhkai mia men apo orouv sina eiv douleian gennwsa estin |
NETBible | These things may be treated as an allegory, 1 for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. |
NET Notes |
1 tn Grk “which things are spoken about allegorically.” Paul is not saying the OT account is an allegory, but rather that he is constructing an allegory based on the OT account. |