Gen 4:7, 38:18-23, 1Sa 15:30, Job 20:12-14, Pro 28:13, Isa 29:13 | TSK | STEP | If thou doest well. be accepted. or, have the excellency. sin. unto thee, or, subject unto thee.

Genesis 4:7

If thou doest well.

19:21; 2Sa 24:23; 2Ki 8:28; Job 42:8; Pr 18:5; Ec 8:12,13

Isa 3:10,11; Jer 6:20; Mal 1:8,10,13; Ac 10:35; Ro 2:7-10; 12:1

Ro 14:18; 15:16; Eph 1:6; 1Ti 5:4; 1Pe 2:5

be accepted. or, have the excellency.

Job 29:4; Pr 21:27; Heb 11:4

sin.

8-13; Ro 7:8,9; Jas 1:15

unto thee, or, subject unto thee.

3:16; *marg:

Genesis 38:18-23

Thy signet.{Chothem,} or {chothemeth,} as in ver. 25, is properly a ring-seal, with which impressions were made to ascertain property, etc. From Jer 22:24, we find that it was worn on the hand; though it might also have been suspended from the neck by a ribband, as the Arabs still wear it.

25,26; Jer 22:24; Lu 15:22

bracelets.{Pathil,} from {pathal,} to twist, wreathe, may denote either a wreath for the arm or neck, a twisted collar, or bracelet. In the former sense the LXX. render it by [ormiskon,] and Aquila and Symmachus by [strepton;] and in the latter sense, the Vulgate renders it by {armillam.} It may have been a collar by which the signet was suspended; though its being used in the plural seems to favour the opinion of its being a bracelet.

gave it her.

25,26; Ho 4:11

laid by her vail.

14; 2Sa 14:2,5

his friend.

20:9; Le 19:17; Jud 14:20; 2Sa 13:3; Lu 23:12

openly by the way side. or, in Enajim.

lest we.

2Sa 12:9; Pr 6:33; Ro 6:21; 2Co 4:2; Eph 5:12; Re 16:15

be shamed. Heb. become a contempt.