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Galatians 4:24

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 24 These things may be taken as a symbolic drama; for these women mean two covenants, the one from Mount Siʹnai,+ which bears children for slavery and which is Haʹgar.

Galatians 4:24

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
- 24 ἅτινά Which (things) ἐστιν is ἀλληγορούμενα· (things) being allegorized; αὗται these [women] γάρ for εἰσιν are δύο two διαθῆκαι, covenants, μία one μὲν indeed ἀπὸ from ὄρους mountain Σινά, Sinai, εἰς into δουλείαν slavery γεννῶσα, becoming parent to, ἥτις which ἐστὶν is Ἅγαρ, Hagar,

Galatians 4:24

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 24 These things stand as a symbolic drama;*+ for these [women] mean two covenants,+ the one from Mount Siʹnai,+ which brings forth children for slavery, and which is Haʹgar.

Galatians 4:24

The Bible in Living English
- 24 which things are said allegorically; for these are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, producing children for slavery, which is Hagar

Galatians 4:24

American Standard Version
- 24 Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

Galatians 4:24

The Emphasized Bible
- 24 Which things indeed may bear another meaning; For the same are two covenants,—One indeed from Mount Sinai Into bondage bringing forth, The which is Hagar,—

Galatians 4:24

King James Version
- 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.

Galatians Study Notes—Chapter 4

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 4:24
  
  taken as a symbolic drama: Or “considered as an allegory.” Here Paul uses an allegory, that is, a narrative in which people, objects, and events serve as symbols of other things. In this symbolic drama, based on Genesis 16 through 21, Paul contrasts “the free woman” (Sarah) with “the servant girl” (Hagar).—Ga 4:22–5:1; see Media Gallery, “Two Women in a Symbolic Drama.”
  
  these women mean two covenants: These covenants were apparently the Mosaic Law covenant and the Abrahamic covenant. Hagar and Sarah themselves are not these covenants. In the prophetic drama, however, they correspond to different aspects of God’s relationship with his people—the Law covenant involving figurative slavery and the Abrahamic covenant leading to true freedom.