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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).