¹⁸ For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm,

²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator^(A) of a new covenant,^(B) and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.^(C)

²⁴ These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai^(A) and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.^(B)

²⁵ Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia^(A) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem,^(B) for she is in slavery with her children.