Genesis 4:7
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

Young's Literal Translation
Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.’

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you do what is right,
תֵּיטִיב֙ (tê·ṭîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

{will}
הֲל֤וֹא (hă·lō·w)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

you not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be accepted?
שְׂאֵ֔ת (śə·’êṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7613: An elevation, leprous scab, elation, cheerfulness, exaltation in rank, character

But if
וְאִם֙ (wə·’im)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you refuse to do what is right,
תֵיטִ֔יב (ṯê·ṭîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

sin
חַטָּ֣את (ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

is crouching
רֹבֵ֑ץ (rō·ḇêṣ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7257: To crouch, be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

at your door;
לַפֶּ֖תַח (lap·pe·ṯaḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6607: An opening, door, entrance way

you are
וְאֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ (wə·’ê·le·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

its object of desire,
תְּשׁ֣וּקָת֔וֹ (tə·šū·qā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8669: A longing

but you
וְאַתָּ֖ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

must master
תִּמְשָׁל־ (tim·šāl-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 4910: To rule, have dominion, reign

it.”
בּֽוֹ׃ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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