4:1 Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from the slave although he is master of everything,
4:2 But is under guardians and trustees until the time appointed of the Father.
4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in subjection to the elements of this olam hazeh:
4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, Elohim (אלהים) sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Torah,
4:5 To redeem them that were under the Torah, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
4:6 And because you are sons, Elohim (אלהים) has sent forth the Ruach of His Ben into your heart, crying, Abba, Father.
4:7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of Elohim (אלהים) through Mashiach.
4:8 But then, when you knew not Elohim (אלהים), you did service to those which by nature are no gods.
4:9 But now, after you have known Elohim (אלהים), or rather are known by Elohim (אלהים), how is it that you turn again to the weak and worthless elementary principle of this world, to which you desire to be bondage?
4:10 You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
4:11 I am afraid I may have laboured over you in vain.
4:12 Achim, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You did me not wrong at all.
4:13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I proclaimed the Good News to you at the first.
4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as a Messenger of Elohim (אלהים), even as Mashiach Yeshua (ישוע).
4:15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.
4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Mashiach be formed in you,
4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
4:21Tell me, you who desire to be under the Torah, do you not hear the Torah?
4:22 For it is written:
That Avraham had two sons, the one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman.
4:23 But the son was born of the slave woman was born according to the flesh; while the son of the free woman was born through the promise.
4:24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
4:25 For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
4:26 But Yerushalayim which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
4:27 For it is written:
Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband.
4:28 Now we, Achim, as Yitzchak was, are the children of the promise.
4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Ruach, even so it is now.
4:30 Nevertheless 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 freewoman.
4:31 So then, achim, we are not benai the bondwoman, but of the free.