Genesis 4:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

if. The Hebrew Accent (Pashta) puts the emphasis on the 1st "well" and on this 2nd "if", to mark the solemn and Important alternative.

sin. sin offering. Hebrew. chata. See App-43. The word "offering" is actually added in Exodus 30:10; Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 6:25; Leviticus 8:2.Psalms 40:6. Compare 2 Corinthians 5:21.Ephesians 5:2.

lieth. Lieth is mase. Sin offering is feminine. So that the Hebrew reads "at the entrance [a male] is lying,. sin offering".

shall be. Supply "is" instead.

and thou shalt rule. Compare Genesis 3:16.

Genesis 4:7

7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.