See in Reader
498 B
498 B
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"