## These things can be explained allegorically ##

"This story of the two sons is like a picture of what I'm going to tell you now"

## Mount Sinai ##

"Mount Sinai, where Moses gave the law to Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])

## who gives birth to bondage ##

"the people under this covenant are like slaves who have to obey the law" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]], [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])

## symbolizes ##

"is a picture of"

## she is in bondage with her children ##

Hagar is a slave and her children are slaves with her. This can be translated as "Jerusalem, like Hagar, is a slave, and her children are slaves with her" (see UDB).