24 Now these things can be taken derech mashal (figuratively); for these are two beritot*4:24 see Ga 3:17 (covenants), one from Mount Sinai bearing banim for avdut (slavery, bondage): this is Hagar. 25 Now, Hagar is the Mount Sinai in Arabia; and corresponds to the Yerushalayim of the present, for she is in avdut with her banim.*4:25 see 2C 3:14 26 But the Yerushalayim above is a Bat Chorin (daughter of freedom), the Imma lechulanu (the Mother of us all).*4:26 Ps 87:5-6; Ex 25:40; Isa 49:20f; 54:1-13