Galatians 4:25 — Compare Translations

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Now Hagar is (stands for) Mount Sinai in Arabia and she corresponds to and belongs in the same category with the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage together with her children.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Now Hagar is (stands for) Mount Sinai in Arabia and she corresponds to and belongs in the same category with the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage together with her children.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;

English EASY 2024

Hagar is like a picture of Mount Sinai in Arabia. Also, she is like the city of Jerusalem here on earth now, because that city and its people are slaves under the authority of God's Law.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

So Hagar is like Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is a picture of the earthly Jewish city of Jerusalem. This city is a slave, and all its people are slaves to the law.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is like Jerusalem today because she and her children are slaves.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English KJV 1611

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

English LSB

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia. She stands for the present city of Jerusalem. That's because she and her children are slaves.

English NIV

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

English NKJ 1982

for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—

English NLT

And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For “Hagar” represents the law given at Mount Sinai in Arabia. The “Hagar” metaphor corresponds to the earthly Jerusalem of today who are currently in bondage.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Mount Sinai, by the way, is called “Mount Hagar“ by the Arabs—and in my illustration, Abraham's slave-wife Hagar represents Jerusalem, the mother-city of the Jews, the center of that system of trying to please God by trying to obey the Commandments; and the Jews, who try to follow that system, are her slave children.

English Tyndale 1537

(For mount Sinai is called Agar in Arabia, and bordereth upon(reacheth unto) the city which is now Jerusalem) and is in bondage with her children.