Galatians 4:22
Good News Translation
It says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman, the other by a free woman.

New Revised Standard Version
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman.

Contemporary English Version
In the Scriptures we learn that Abraham had two sons. The mother of one of them was a slave, while the mother of the other one had always been free.

New American Bible
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.

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Genesis 16:2-4,15 She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request, . . .

Genesis 21:1,2,10 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken. . . .

Context
Hagar and Sarah
21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise.…
Cross References
Genesis 16:15
And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael.

Genesis 21:2
And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

Galatians 4:23
But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise.

Galatians 4:30
But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

Galatians 4:31
So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.

Galatians 4:21
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