Monday, January 11, 2010  Geneva Bible - Desire  Gen 4:7 If thou
doest well, shalt thou not be e accepted? and if thou doest not
well, sin lieth at the f door. And unto thee [shall be] his g
desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (f) Sin will still torment
your conscience. I really like this note for the explanation of
the phrase "unto thee shall be his desire." Some translations
stumble at this verse and replace the translation for the Hebrew
Masculine pronoun as "its" instead of "his." With the tendency
to interpret the antecedent of the pronoun as "sin" instead of
"Abel". Defining and translating what the word "desire" here
means affects another significant passage, Gen 3:16. The Hebrew
word for desire is teshûqâh, and appears only the the
following three verses: Gen 3:16, Gen 4:7, and Song 7:10.  If
the antecedent to the personal pronoun in Gen 4:7 is sin and as
the modern translators and commentators explain it, "Cain, if
you don't do what's right, then, sin is close by and desires to
devour you up." An