# These things may be interpreted as an allegory

"This story of the women and their sons is like a picture of what I will tell you now"

# an allegory

An "allegory" is a story in which the people and things in it represent other things.

# One of them is from Mount Sinai

"One of the covenants is from Mount Sinai." Mount Sinai is where God gave made a covenant with the people of Israel and gave the the law.

# she bears children into slavery

"the children she gives birth to become slaves"